Prof. Mazıcı Taken off Air Upon Criticizing Erdoğan

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Prof. Dr. Nurşen Mazıcı attending the TV programme hosted by Ece Üner on Habertürk News TV has been taken off the air and led out of the studio upon her remark  “the lives of those who have lost their lives were as valuable as Erdoğan’s”.

According to the report of Hürriyet daily, Prof. Dr. Mazıcı has argued that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calling on the people to take it to the streets on the night of the coup attempt on July 15 was wrong and expressed “the lives of all those who have lost their lives on that night were as valuable as Erdoğan’s”.

Host Ece Üner announcing that Prof. Dr. Mazıcı has been sent off the studio has noted that all the guests in the studio were of the same mind that the people who took it to the streets were democracy martyrs who had prevented the coup attempt.

Marmara University making a statement following the incident has declared that Mazıcı’s words were received “regretfully” and that legal and administrative action would be taken against the professor.

Who is Prof. Dr. Nurşen Mazıcı

Prof. Dr. Nurşen Mazıcı, academic at Marmara University Faculty of Communication Department of Journalism, was born in Malatya. After getting her bachelor’s degree in Marmara University Faculty of Communication and Selçuk University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, she has completed her master’s study and doctorate at İstanbul University Faculty of Political Science.

She has received a certificate of achievement in a programme about national security in Christian Albert University she has attended within a scholarship she has won following her dissertation study in London.

During her post-doctoral study at Michigan Üniversity Near East and North African Studies, political science, she has worked on democratization process in Middle East countries for three years and has become an associate professor.

She has been promoted to professorship following her documentary studies in National Archives in Washington DC in 2000.

She still continues her documentary works about the Turkish-American relations during World War 2 which she has started in the academic year of 2005-2006 in Washington. (EA/DG)