Posted on 07/20/2016 6:36:20 AM PDT by Truth29
Turkey's academics found themselves in the government's crossfire once again on Wednesday amid a continued crackdown following a failed military coup last week.
The High Board of Education placed a travel ban on academics, temporarily barring them from leaving the country, according to an official speaking on state-run broadcaster TRT.
"Universities have always been crucial for military juntas in Turkey and certain individuals are believed to be in contact with cells within the military," the official said, explaining the goal of the ban was to keep any professors involved in Friday's attempted overthrow from leaving the country.
This is just the latest effort against Turkey's academics. Also on Wednesday, Istanbul University ousted 95 professors and just one day earlier, the higher education board demanded that more than 1,500 deans resign from their university posts throughout Turkey. Meanwhile, for more than 21,000 private school teachers lost their licenses in a sweeping move from the Ministry of Education.
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Sounds like the beginning of ‘The Killing Fields’ in SE Asia.
A Stalinist purge in progress.
This would make East Germany proud.
Sounds like to me Erdogan “false flagged a coup” to justify complete control.
The ‘Academics’ are ALWAYS among the first to go......................to the gulags or the wall...........................
Will the average Turk on the street simply fall in line or will they eventually rise up in righteous anger?..............................
Turkish Academia is probably old secularists that despite modern Islamists.
Agreed. Wearing glasses or looking or acting educated in some other manner was an offence punishable by beating or death in Khmer Rouge Cambodia back in the 1975 to 1978 era (even though Pol Pot himself was university educated in Paris).
Never trust a Turk.
Are so-called academics in Turkey the same useless class they are here?
Wonder if the military will have a “real” coup?
Marx, Lennon, Trotsky, Stalin teaming up with islam. “Up against the wall” is the next act in this old play.
Probably....and their too smart to take the hint here.
Erdogan arrested 99 Generals ,soon Turkey’s Military will be nothing but your Muslim Allah Akbar Rabble
Thanks, that is an interesting perspective. For many who are on the lists that were suspended or fired, getting out of Turkey will look very attractive, if they can figure out how. After all, if they stay, they may end up tortured, dead or in a Turkish prison for thought crimes. Time to go.
It’s a thugocracy and I have NO DESIRE to defend them in any way... Dump NATO.
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