Network of Academic Solidarity and Engagement (MASA) is strongly supporting the attempts of teachers and students from the Bosphorus University to defend university autonomy and to resist the government and president of Turkey's attempts to devastate basic democratic and academic principles. Also, we strongly condemn various decisions and acts of the government and president of Turkey which lead to arrest and imprisonment of students, presence of uniformed police stationed with machine guns and riot intervention vehicles around the campus and within the campus, depriving students right to education , dismissing of full time professors and other valuable lecturers, imposing government obedient rectors, treating Senate and Executive Board members with disrespect... We should emphasize that Bosphorus University is not the first to suffer from this authoritarian and antidemocratic policy, this is also affecting all public universities in Turkey. Also, many universities around the world today face similar anti-democratic attacks launched by authoritarian and/or neoliberal governments. The struggle of our colleagues and students from the Bosphorus University is a part of the international struggle for university autonomy and democracy.
The Network of Academic Solidarity and Engagement (MASA) strongly supports the attempts of teachers and students from Bosphorus University to defend the autonomy of the university and to resist the attempts of the government and president of Turkey to devastate basic democratic and academic principles. Also, we strongly condemn the various decisions and actions of the government and the president of Turkey that lead to the arrest and imprisonment of students, the presence of uniformed police stationed with machine guns and intervention vehicles in the surroundings and inside the campus, the denial of students' right to education, the dismissal of regular professors and other valuable lecturers, the imposition government-obedient rectors, disrespect for members of the Senate and the Executive Board... It should also be emphasized that Bosphorus University is not the first to suffer from authoritarian and anti-democratic policies, but that this also applies to all state universities in Turkey. Also, many universities around the world today face similar anti-democratic attacks launched by authoritarian and/or neoliberal governments. The struggle of our colleagues and students from Bosphorus University is part of the international struggle for university autonomy and democracy.
