Turkey, juventud vs Erdogan: Free Comrades Denizhan and Emrecan
Picking Fur, who ran as a parliamentary candidate for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2015, was appointed rector of Bogazici University by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a presidential decree issued on 1 January and took office on Tuesday, which sparked massive youth protests in Istanbul. After brutal police attacks, two members of the SEP (Denizhan Eren y Emrecan Konyalı) were arrested along with 36 students. They have been in custody for two days.
The decision was met with outrage from the student body and faculty members., who interpreted Bulu's appointment as an attempt to restrict academic freedoms, saying that the new rector was the first to be elected from outside the university community since the military coup of 1980.
Erdogan's one-man regime is losing social support and is very unpopular among young people. As social conditions ripen for a social explosion, Erdogan and his coalition ally, the fascist party, increase oppression on the opposition. One of the most dynamic elements of the social movement are university students.
Until the middle of the decade 2010, the left was hegemonic in the universities. The best universities, such as Boğaziçi University and METU, They are the universities in which the revolutionary left has a strong tradition. Erdogan could not take control of these important universities. Then he began to use fascist organizations and the police, then, after the coup attempt 2015, took the opportunity of extraordinary authority under a state of emergency to cancel all university elections to destroy the semi-autonomous structure of universities and lay off hundreds. of leftist academics / opponents. From 2016, Erdogan has been appointing rectors who are nothing more than an attempt to crush the universities he cannot control.
- Comrade Emrecan, speaking at the large protest in front of Bogazici University, covered by national media.
Picking Fur, who ran as a parliamentary candidate for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2015, He was appointed rector of Bogazici University by Erdogan. When the appointment was announced, Students organized a massive protest in front of the university. The protest became a joint protest between students from different universities, who have been suffering from the oppressive rules of the rector appointed by Erdogan.
The protest gained such great popular support that the mayor of Istanbul banned all protests near the university.. Police in riot gear blocked roads around campus in preparation for the third day of protests on Wednesday. Despite the ban on protests, Thousands of students gathered at the university and came to Kadıkoy. Students from different universities challenged oppression:
AKP-paid social media trolls criminalized students on night of action. The students were shown to the public as terrorists. In an operation carried out early in the morning, the police invaded houses breaking doors; using heavy weapons with the propaganda that they are members of illegal organizations.
The SEP youth organization, MFT, actively organizes protest and militant fight against this political counterattack.
MFT campaigns around the following demands:
– Release all students
-Cancel the appointment of the rector
-The rectors must be democratically elected by students, academics and university workers.
-Universities must be autonomous
– Reinstate dismissed academics
FREEDOM FOR DENİZHAN AND EMRECAN!
RELEASE ALL STUDENTS!
