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| tags: | #“We will not be a party to this crime”, #Academics for Peace, #barisicin akademisyenler, #Kurdish question, #Noam Chomsky, #petition, #Recep Tayyip Erdogan, #Slavoj Žižek, #state policy, #Turkey |
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| located: | Turkey |
| by: | Deniz Zehra Tavli |
Turkey has been accused of violating academic freedom after the detention of 27 academics who had signed a petition demanding "an immediate end to the violence perpetrated by the state" in Eastern Turkey. The signatories have been accused of "terror propaganda" while this intervention of the Turkish state itself resembles an act of terror against its own rule of law.
The petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime” was signed by the staff from 90 universities calling themselves “Academics for Peace”, among them well-known political scientist Noam Chomsky and philosopher Slavoj Žižek. The signatories are demanding an immediate end to the military interventions in Eastern Turkey including massacres against the Kurds and accusing the Turkish government of breaching international law and violating human rights.
In order to crub further declarations of solidarity, the webpage of the petition was blocked soon after the call for signature by Turkish authorities. Still a collective of 1400 international academics - and soon 35.000 Turkish students who declared their solidarity with the "Academics for Peace" in a seperate petition - managed to gain the attention of the Turkish government, international media and human rights organisations.
Despite all state censorship, it is still possible to sign the petition via E-mail. As an academic you can support "Acedamics for Peace" by sending an E-Mail with your signature, name of your university and your title to info@barisicinakademisyenler.net
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