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Subject: [entitle_core] I: [IPEC] UPDATE: Situation on academics in
Turkey and URGENT request for support
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Dear all,
Probably you already received it, but I send again the call from our
friend Ethemcan, urging you to sign it and to disseminate the below
letter widely through your networks.
Fascism is rising in front of our very eyes and we cannot remain silent.
Best
-- Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
PhD Researcher, Lund UniversityFellow of ENTITLE Network for Political
Ecology
Salvatore_Paolo.De_Rosa@??? at @Sal_DeRosa
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Da: Ethemcan Turhan <ethemcan@???>
A: IPEC@???
Inviato: Lunedì 18 Gennaio 2016 9:51
Oggetto: [IPEC] UPDATE: Situation on academics in Turkey and URGENT
request for support
Dear colleagues, friends, compañerxs,
You have probably all heard about Erdo?an and his government's full
frontal assault on academics (including a number of us on this list as
well) in Turkey. This week we are expecting further progress in the
case as the lawyers & prosecutor's office suggest that whereas they
are unlikely to detain us (not sure though as it's a wholly unlawful
process), we'll most probably be invited to testify.
Once the legal process starts, building wide international support
becomes extremely important to ensure no one gets punished for having
signed a peace petition. Now the rumors are that they are likely to
punish us through an international travel ban (meaning they can keep
2148 signatories of the petition away from all international academic
work/meeting by banning their international travels while the court
case lasts).
Hence immediate support is necessary. So please do consider signing up
the support petition by sending your name, title & institution to
academicsforpeace@???
First deadline for signature collection is Tuesday (19th January
2016). I would also appreciate if you can kindly circulate this
between your ecological economics and political ecology colleagues.
Institutional support is more than welcome.
Below you may find the details of the case and more info on further
developments.
In solidarity
Ethemcan
______________________________
As authoritarianism and militarism reached a new high in Turkey, a
group of academics from Turkey (and beyond) launched a petition ? We
Will Not Be Party To This Crime? (
http://bianet.org/english/
human-rights/170978-academics- we-will-not-be-a-party-to- this-crime)
to state their opposition.
| | Academics: We will not be a Party to This Crime - Beyza
...bianet.org1,128 academics from 89 universities in Turkey, and over
355 academics and researchers from abroad have signed a text calling
on state of Turkey to end state violence ... |
President of the Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who is not the head of
government but acts as such in violation of the Constitution of the
country) slammed the academics for their protest
(http://www.hurriyetdailynews. com/erdogan-slams-academics-
over-petition-invites-chomsky- to-turkey.aspx?PageID=238&NID=
93760&NewsCatID=338) and the Council of Higher Education (YOK), which
is a creation of the generals who led the 1980 coup and regulates all
public universities, started an investigation about the petitioners.
Many university administrators have already taken punitive actions
against their faculty. Several of the petitioners were subject to
house or office raids by the police and arrested. They are charged
with supporting terrorism because their declaration did not criticize
PKK (the Kurdish militant organization)!
Below please see the text of a petition. If you would like to support
it please send a message to academicsforpeace@??? with a line
indicating your name, academic title and
institution. Please forward this message to your colleagues and invite
them to sign the petition. You may ask your academic institution or
professional organization to sign the petition and post it on its
webpage, as well.
As academics and university administrators who are committed to
seeking knowledge and to the free dissemination of information, we are
appalled by the repression, persecution and prosecution of Turkish
scholars for simply expressing their concern about the growing
violence within the country and specifically, the state aggression and
illegal treatment of citizens in the Kurdish region of the
country. The call of our colleagues in Turkey for their government to
respect national and international laws and reopen negotiations with
the representatives of Turkey's Kurdish population (as well as to
bring in independent observers to protect the human rights of the
citizens of Turkey and investigate military operations in civilian
areas) is a message of peace; it is intended to protect human life and
property and to prevent further escalation of a conflict that
threatens not only Turkey but the entire region. We, the undersigned,
extend our solidarity with our colleagues in Turkey and affirm their
right, as citizens, seekers of knowledge, and persons of good
conscience, to speak truth to power. We ask that the government of
Turkey:
- Cease the intimidation, persecution and prosecution of all those
who have publicly expressed opposition to the current government's
policies, including the signatories of the petition, ? We Will Not Be
Party To This Crime?;
- Reorganize the Council of Higher Education, a creature of the
1980s military regime, in order to enable it to operate as a truly
autonomous organization to coordinate research and facilitate the
functions of all institutions of higher education, beyond the control
of political parties and the government;
- Respect the country?s commitment to rule of law, democracy, and
human rights, especially the freedoms of thought, expression and the
press, which are protected in the Constitution of Turkey and the
international treaties to which Turkey has been a party.
- Restart the ?peace process? with Kurdish representatives that
the government aborted for political motives on the eve of the June
2015 election.
______________________________
--
Ethemcan Turhan, Ph.D.
Karaköy Minerva Han
Bankalar Caddesi No: 2, Kat: 4
34420 Karaköy - ?stanbul / Turkey
Tel: +90-555-262-0769
Web:
http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/
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Dear all,
Probably you already received it, but I send again the call from our friend
Ethemcan, urging you to sign it and to disseminate the below letter widely
through your networks.
Fascism is rising in front of our very eyes and we cannot remain silent.
Best
--
Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
PhD Researcher, Lund University
Fellow of ENTITLE <
http://entitleblog.org/> Network for Political Ecology
Salvatore_Paolo.De_Rosa@???
<
https://webmail.lu.se/owa/redir.aspx?C=7VjtVE6uP0-gYcyo1OFfKYtBMVVsdNEIN9NfsEkQp4DsmdnRC9hbGx0couKJcwFNHuvAwZx4vdw.&URL=mailto%3aSalvatore_Paolo.De_Rosa%40keg.lu.se>
follow at @Sal_DeRosa
----- Messaggio inoltrato -----
*Da:* Ethemcan Turhan <ethemcan@???>
*A:* IPEC@???
*Inviato:* Lunedì 18 Gennaio 2016 9:51
*Oggetto:* [IPEC] UPDATE: Situation on academics in Turkey and URGENT
request for support
Dear colleagues, friends, compañerxs,
You have probably all heard about Erdoğan and his government's full frontal
assault on academics (including a number of us on this list as well) in
Turkey. This week we are expecting further progress in the case as the
lawyers & prosecutor's office suggest that whereas they are unlikely to
detain us (not sure though as it's a wholly unlawful process), we'll most
probably be invited to testify.
Once the legal process starts, building wide international support becomes
extremely important to ensure no one gets punished for having signed a
peace petition. Now the rumors are that they are likely to punish us
through an* international travel ban* (meaning they can keep 2148
signatories of the petition away from all international academic
work/meeting by banning their international travels while the court case
lasts).
*Hence immediate support is necessary. So please do consider signing up the
support petition by sending your name, title & institution to *
*academicsforpeace@??? <academicsforpeace@???>*
*First deadline for signature collection is Tuesday (19th January 2016). I
would also appreciate if you can kindly circulate this between your
ecological economics and political ecology colleagues. Institutional
support is more than welcome. *
Below you may find the details of the case and more info on further
developments.
In solidarity
Ethemcan
*______________________________*
As authoritarianism and militarism reached a new high in Turkey, a group of
academics from Turkey (and beyond) launched a petition “ We Will Not Be
Party To This Crime” (
http://bianet.org/english/
human-rights/170978-academics- we-will-not-be-a-party-to- this-crime
<
http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/170978-academics-we-will-not-be-a-party-to-this-crime>)
to state their opposition.
<
http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/170978-academics-we-will-not-be-a-party-to-this-crime>
Academics: We will not be a Party to This Crime - Beyza ...
<
http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/170978-academics-we-will-not-be-a-party-to-this-crime>
bianet.org
1,128 academics from 89 universities in Turkey, and over 355 academics and
researchers from abroad have signed a text calling on state of Turkey to
end state violence ...
President of the Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who is not the head of
government but acts as such in violation of the Constitution of the
country) slammed the academics for their protest (
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.
com/erdogan-slams-academics- over-petition-invites-chomsky-
to-turkey.aspx?PageID=238&NID= 93760&NewsCatID=338
<
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/erdogan-slams-academics-over-petition-invites-chomsky-to-turkey.aspx?PageID=238&NID=93760&NewsCatID=338>)
and the Council of Higher Education (YOK), which is a creation of the
generals who led the 1980 coup and regulates all public universities,
started an investigation about the petitioners. Many university
administrators have already taken punitive actions against their faculty.
Several of the petitioners were subject to house or office raids by the
police and arrested. They are charged with supporting terrorism because
their declaration did not criticize PKK (the Kurdish militant organization)!
Below please see the text of a petition. If you would like to support it
please send a message to academicsforpeace@??? with a line indicating
your name, academic title and institution. Please forward this message to
your colleagues and invite them to sign the petition. You may ask your
academic institution or professional organization to sign the petition and
post it on its webpage, as well.
As academics and university administrators who are committed to seeking
knowledge and to the free dissemination of information, we are appalled by
the repression, persecution and prosecution of Turkish scholars for simply
expressing their concern about the growing violence within the country and
specifically, the state aggression and illegal treatment of citizens in the
Kurdish region of the country.
The call of our colleagues in Turkey for their government to respect
national and international laws and reopen negotiations with the
representatives of Turkey's Kurdish population (as well as to bring in
independent observers to protect the human rights of the citizens of Turkey
and investigate military operations in civilian areas) is a message of
peace; it is intended to protect human life and property and to prevent
further escalation of a conflict that threatens not only Turkey but the
entire region.
We, the undersigned, extend our solidarity with our colleagues in Turkey
and affirm their right, as citizens, seekers of knowledge, and persons of
good conscience, to speak truth to power. We ask that the government of
Turkey:
- Cease the intimidation, persecution and prosecution of all those who
have publicly expressed opposition to the current government's policies,
including the signatories of the petition, “ We Will Not Be Party To This
Crime”;
- Reorganize the Council of Higher Education, a creature of the 1980s
military regime, in order to enable it to operate as a truly autonomous
organization to coordinate research and facilitate the functions of all
institutions of higher education, beyond the control of political parties
and the government;
- Respect the country’s commitment to rule of law, democracy, and human
rights, especially the freedoms of thought, expression and the press, which
are protected in the Constitution of Turkey and the international treaties
to which Turkey has been a party.
- Restart the “peace process” with Kurdish representatives that the
government aborted for political motives on the eve of the June 2015
election.
*______________________________*
--
Ethemcan Turhan, Ph.D.
Karaköy Minerva Han
Bankalar Caddesi No: 2, Kat: 4
34420 Karaköy - İstanbul / Turkey
Tel: +90-555-262-0769
Web:
http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/
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