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Over 1,000 academics, institutions express support for Boğaziçi University resistance

PETITION

Over 1,000 academics, institutions express support for Boğaziçi University resistance

Signed by 1,000 academics and 35 institutions from Turkey and abroad, the petition in support of ongoing protests has “condemned the intensifying attacks on Boğaziçi University” and expressed demands for academic freedom and university autonomy.

203 artists express support: ‘Sezen Aksu will never walk alone’

DECLARATION

203 artists express support: ‘Sezen Aksu will never walk alone’

In the face of targeting remarks and threats over a song, including from President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, 203 artists have expressed their solidarity with musician Sezen Aksu: “We will not lose even a single one of us.”

24 January 2022

International support for academic Can Candan

DISMISSED FROM BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY

International support for academic Can Candan

Over 300 academics and filmmakers have addressed an open letter to the Rectorate of Boğaziçi University, its Senate and the Council of Higher Education, expressing support for Can Candan, who has been dismissed by the appointed acting rector.

Musicians sell their instruments, return to their hometowns

PANDEMIC IN TURKEY

Musicians sell their instruments, return to their hometowns

For more than a year, stages have been closed and concerts have not been held. Five different musicians who are having a hard time spoke to bianet about how they are trying to survive.

5 May 2021 Dara Demiralp

Debt instead of cash support

TURKEY'S RESPONSE TO THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC

Debt instead of cash support

In the Covid-19 period, the government has preferred to make citizens indebted instead of putting money in their pockets, which is the primary criterion, as was done in many countries of the world.

4 May 2021 Aziz Çelik

262 theater artists express support for Boğaziçi

262 theater artists express support for Boğaziçi

“We stand with the struggling students and academics. This time, they are on the stage, they are on the stage of resistance and we are applauding them,” say the artists in a statement of support amid protests against the appointed rector.

‘We are honored to be colleagues, students, friends of Prof. Ergüder’

SUPPORT BY 1,460 CITIZENS

‘We are honored to be colleagues, students, friends of Prof. Ergüder’

After Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu targeted former Boğaziçi University rector Prof. Üstün Ergüder over the ongoing protests against the appointed rector, 3,453 citizens have released a joint statement of support for the academic.

23 February 2021

Musicians express support for Boğaziçi University

Musicians express support for Boğaziçi University

Amid ongoing protests of Boğaziçi University students and faculty against the appointed rector, 252 musicians have released a joint statement underlining that the political authority must keep its hands off universities, academics and students.

18 February 2021

Over 2,300 academics from 52 countries: We stand with Boğaziçi

APPOINTMENT OF MELİH BULU

Over 2,300 academics from 52 countries: We stand with Boğaziçi

Amid protests against the appointment of Bulu as the new president of Boğaziçi, 2,314 academics from 52 countries have signed a joint statement: “We stand with Boğaziçi University students and faculty in their struggle for academic freedom and autonomy.”

18 January 2021

Supporting Academics for Peace, Erol Önderoğlu Acquitted

Supporting Academics for Peace, Erol Önderoğlu Acquitted

Having informed against himself to the prosecutor's office in support of Academics for Peace, RSF Representative to Turkey Erol Önderoğlu has been acquitted of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”.

24 September 2019