Musicians express support for Boğaziçi University

"We want an elected rector, not an appointed one"

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Musicians have expressed their support for the Boğaziçi University students' protests against the appointment of Prof. Melih Bulu as a rector.

With a joint statement signed by 252 musicians so far, they have underlined that they do not accept the methods of any political power otherizing universities, academics and students and trying to design them as they wish, regardless of its reason. They have also called on the government to keep its hands off universities, academics and students immediately.

'We will always defend democratic universities'

As reported by daily Evrensel, the statement has read:

"We, the undersigned musicians, are the laborers of music and stage who defend freedoms and universal human rights and stand against all types of discrimination.

"In that sense, we lay claim to the autonomous universities, the academics holding onto democratic values and the esteemed students who have been voicing their 'rightful' demands guaranteed by the Constitution in the face of the injustice that they are subjected to.

"We do not accept the methods of any political power that are otherizing universities, academics and students and trying to design them as they see fit, no matter for what reason it is done.

"The political authority must keep its hands off universities, academics and esteemed students immediately.

"We declare it to the whole public:

"We will stand with all universities resisting the pressures put on themselves, primarily with Boğaziçi University students, and we will always be the advocates of 'Autonomous and Democratic University'!"

The undersigned

Adamlar, Ahmet Güvenç, Ahmet Özgül, Akın Eldes, Ali Ağrı, Ali Asker, Ali Kocatepe, Alper Yılmaz, Anıl Eraslan, Anıl Şallıel, Arel Koray Nalbant (Vera), Arif Sağ, Aslı Gökyokuş, Atila Taş, Attila Atasoy, Aydın Karabulut, Aydın Yagan, Aykut Gürel, Aylin Aslım, Aysun Kocatepe, Aysun Sökmen, Ayşe Tütüncü, Ayşenur Kolivar, Aytekin Ataş, Baba Zula, Babetna, Bahr, Banu Kanıbelli, Banu Kırbağ, Barış Ertürk, Batu Mutlugil, Belkıs Akkale, Bengü Berker, Berke Açabey (Yol Project), Birol Topaloğlu, Birsen Tezer, Bora Duran, Bulutsuzluk Özlemi, Burhan Hasdemir, Burhan Şeşen (Gündoğarken), Bülent Ortaçgil, Bülent Şakrak, Cahit Berkay, Can Güngör, Canberk Karademir (Vera), Cem Adrian, Cem Akgün, Cem Aksel, Cem Öget, Cengiz Baltepe, Cenk Erdoğan, Cenk Ünnü (Pentagram), Ceyda Özbaşarel, Ceyhun Demir, Ceylan Ertem, Çağatay Çoker, Çağıl Kaya, Çağrı Erdem, Çamur, Defjen, Demet Sağıroğlu, Dengin Ceyhan, Deniz Ağan, Deniz Güngören, Deniz Özbey Akyüz (Vega), Deniz Yılmaz, Derya Köroğlu, Diler Özer, Doğan Canku, Doğan Duru (Redd), Doruk Okuyucu, Duman, Dünyacan Yılmaz (Vera), Edip Akbayram, Ediz Hafızoğlu, Ege, Elif Çağlar Muslu, Emrah Karaca, Emre Tankal, Erdal Erzincan, Erdal Güney, Erdem Göymen, Erdoğan Emir, Erkan Oğur, Erkut Demiroyan, Eskiz, Esra Kayıkçı, Esra Üçcan, Evrim Özşuca, Ezel Akay (Mozaik), Ezgi Aktan, Ezginin Günlüğü, Ezhel, Feridun Düzağaç, Fırat Tanış, Flört, Fuat Ergin, Gaye Su Akyol, Gevende, Gökhan Özoğuz (Athena), Gökhan Şeşen (Gündoğarken), Gözde Öney, Gulê Mayêra, Gülce Duru, Güntaç Özdemir, Gürtuğ Gök, Güvenç Dağüstün, Hakan Özoğuz (Athena), Hakan Vreskala, Hakkı Erkal Öztürk, Hami Barutçu, Hayko Cepkin, Helak, Helin Erenler, Hikmet Akçiçek, Hivda Gökel, Hüseyin Güneş, Hüseyin Kurtulmaz, Hüseyin Turan, Hüsnü Arkan, Ilgıt Dağüstün, İlkay Akkaya, İlknur Yakupoğlu, Jehan Barbur, Kaan Öztürk, Kadri Karagöz, Kalben, Kemal Kahraman, Kemal Küçükbakkal, Keremcem, Kutsal Evcimen, Kül, Lalalar, Leman Sam, Levent Bursalı, Mahmut Çınar, Masis Aram Gözek, Mavi, Maviş Güneşer, Mazlum Çimen, Mehmet Demirdelen, Mehmet Gümüş, Mehtap Meral, Melek, Melis Danişmend, Melis Sökmen, Meriç Demirkol, Merih Aşkın, Mert Alkaya (Bulutsuzluk Özlemi), Mertcan Bilgin, Mertol Şalt, Merve Salgar, Metin Kahraman, Moğollar, Mor ve Ötesi, Mozaik, Muammer Ketencioğlu, Muharrem Temiz, Murat İlkan (Pentagram), Musa Baki, Musa Eroğlu, Mustafa Özaslan, Mustafa Şarbak (Vera), Mücahit Göker, Müge Çakarlı, Nadir Göktürk, Nejat Yavaşoğulları, Nida Ateş, Nihal Saruhanlı, Nilipek, Nisan Ark, Niyazi Koyuncu, Nur Yoldaş, Nurettin Güleç, Nusaibin, Ogün Sanlısoy, Oğuz Aksaç, Onok Bozkurt, Onur Akın, Onur Çalışkan, Onur Yusufoğlu, Orçun Açabey (Yol Project), Orçun Sünear (Sattas), Ozan Çoban, Ozan Tügen, Ozan Yagan, Özge Fışkın, Özlem Olgun, Özün Usta, Pamela Spence, Peyk, Sabahat Akkiraz, Sadık Gürbüz, Sait Bakşi, Saki Çimen, Saruhan Erim (Mozaik), Sedef Erçetin, Selçuk Balcı, Selda Öztürk, Selen Gülün, Serdar Keskin, Serhat Ersöz, Serhat Raşa, Sevinç Eratalay, She Past Away, Sıla Gençoğlu, Sıla Gerbağa, Sibel Köse, Sibil, Silver Kesici, Simge Pınar, Sinan Altıparmak, Siney Yılmaz, Son Feci Bisiklet, Soner Olgun, Suavi, Şanışer, Şehrazat, Şenay Lambaoğlu, Şevket Akıncı, Şevval Sam, Tamer Temel, Taner Öngür, Tarkan Gözübüyük (Pentagram), Tevfik Fikret Tufan, Timuçin Gürer (Mozaik), Tolga Çandar, Tolga Sağ, Tolga Tüzün, Tuna Kiremitçi, Tuncer Duman, Turgut Alp Bekoğlu, Ufuk Beydemir, Ülkü Aybala Sunat, Ümit Olgun ve Paryalar, Vedat Sakman, Vedat Yıldırım, Volkan İncüvez, Volkan Yagan, Yaren Eren Budak, Yasemin Mori, Yaşar, Yaşar Kurt, Yeşim Salkım, Yılmaz Sütçü, Yonca Lodi, Yusuf Deniz, Zeki Açabey (Yol Project), Zeynep Casalini, Zeynep Kılıç, Zeynep Özyılmazel, Zülfü Livaneli.

(EKN/SD)