Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fears the protests that have erupted at Istanbul's Bosphorus University (also known as Bogazici University — Editor's note) against his totalitarian rule. He has retaliated with an iron-fisted approach.
Bosphorus University is one of Turkey's few remaining bastions of democratic and liberal thought. Its resilient faculty and critically minded students are a thorn in Erdogan's side; they are the sort of forces he wishes to purge from Turkey. The university is a safe haven for liberals, anarchists, feminists, LGBTQI+ activists, Kurds, the left, atheists and even — to Erdogan's horror — pious Muslims, who fear no one except Allah.
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Opinion: Erdogan fears Turkey′s Generation Z | Opinion | DW | 05.02.2021
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