Eskişehir Anadolu Üniversitesi’nde Barış için Akademisyenler’in “Bu suça ortak olmayacağız” bildirisi imzacısı en az 20 akademisyen hiçbir gerekçe gösterilmeden açığa alınmıştı. Konuyla ilgili eylem yapmak isteyen akademisyenlerin eylemi OHAL bahane edilerek engellenmişti. Sendika binasında toplanan akademisyenler burada bir basın açıklaması yaparak durumu protesto etti

After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge thousands of academics and deans from office.

In a crackdown that rapidly spread across civil and military services, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the closure of thousands of private schools and many universities. Some 15,000 employees at the education ministry were fired, while more than 1,500 university deans were asked to resign.

The Middle East Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, Executive Committee of the American Comparative Literature Association, American Council of Learned Societies, American Studies Association, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, European Association for Middle Eastern Studies, German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), German Studies Association, International Center for Medieval Art, Latin American Studies Association, Linguistic Society of America, The Medieval Academy of America, Modern Language Association, National Communication Association, and Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association collectively note with profound concern the apparent moves to dismantle much of the structure of Turkish higher education through purges, restrictions, and assertions of central control, a process begun earlier this year and accelerating now with alarming speed. 

20 July 2016 | last updated: 21 July 2016

UCU has called on the Turkish authorities to end violations of academic freedom following mass sackings and calls for resignations from the country's education system.