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Organizers say they are rallying for family values, while rights groups protest the rally as a hate crime.

European parliamentarians and rights groups are calling for Turkey to end the detention of two students behind bars for three months for protesting the government-appointed rector of Bogazici University.

‘Symbolic power’: Melih Bulu was fired after months of campus protests Academics in Turkey say they have won a rare victory for university autonomy after a politically appointed rector was dismissed following six months of protest. The firing of Melih Bulu, a former ruling party candidate who was appointed at Boğaziçi University by the president in January, could be a turning point in the fight for academic freedom, they hope, which has come under intense pressure since a failed coup attempt in 2016. Professor Bulu’s outside appointment − under a 2018 law that allows president Recep...

February 25, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from LeftEast — This year the Turkish government’s campaign to stamp out dissent has broken new ground, but a new spirit of resistance is there to meet it, particularly at one of the country’s landmark public universities. In what follows, two participants in the oppositional student movement at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul tell us about their struggle against the imposition of a new rector aiming to put the university securely under the command of the ruling party. Until recently, rectors at Tur...

Targeted by Erdogan, Turkey's LGBT community face 'tsunami of hate' Issued on: 4 min Istanbul (AFP) Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East have found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Istanbul. Today, in the face of growing government hostility and vitriol from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, the young gay man says he has just one wish: to leave. "Before, there would be a wave of hatred and then it would calm down," said the 30-year-old computer engineer, his eyes piercing thr...