Wearing Helmet Instead of Cap on Commencement Day

University students across Turkey reflected their reactions about several topics from work murders in Soma to subcontracting by using banners and construction helmets on their commencement ceremonies.

Several university students paid their hommage to workplace murders in Soma as well as young people who were killed in Gezi and also Lice.  

While some college students wore miner’s helmets instead of their caps, banners also took part of celebrations similar to the last year. 

bianet is sharing a few pictures from commencement ceremonies: 

Sabancı University

Photo credit: Ceren Alkan

When Güler Sabancı was making her opening speech, banners saying “No to Subcontracting” and “No to Assistantship without Guarantees” were opened by students.

Other university students also hailed Ayşe Deniz Karacagil by wearing red scarves. Karacagil has been arrested during Gezi Resistance in Antalya and she was charged with 98 years of prison.

Osmangazi University

Photo credit: Orhan Karslı / AA

Students from Eskişehir’s Osmangazi University walked with helmets and banners about Soma in the commencement ceremony.   

Bilecik Sheik Ebedali University

Photo credit: Muhsin Arslan / AA

College students wore helmet instead of cap also in Bilecik.

Mediterranean University  

Graduates from the Faculty of Communication opened the following banner: “To people who give a life for a handful coal”. 

Photo credit: direnişteyiz.org

Students from Class Teacher department held banners on the names of children murdered in workplaces.  

Uludağ University

Photo credit: Kolektifler.net

Department of Philosophy opened a banner that said in Kurdish and Turkish: “Lice, Şırnak, Soma, See, Hear, and Speak”

Istanbul University

Photo credit: twitter

While Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine’s students were wearing the helmets, a screen showed a “Soma” writing.   

Anatolia University

Photo credit: dokuz8haber

Anatolia University’s students held banners that said: “There is a strike in this city. #Resistance fighter” referring to Şişe Glass workers. (BK/GOA/BM)

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