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21, 2016</strong><br>
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Dear Colleagues:<br>
<br>
As members of the
Executive Committee of
the National Women’s
Studies Association,
we write to express
our deep concern over
the alarming, ongoing,
and unprecedented
attacks on academics
in/from Turkey.<br>
<br>
Concerns about
academic freedom have
been mounting over the
last year as academics
in/from Turkey have
been retaliated
against by the
government for signing
a petition. The “peace
petition,” as it was
colloquially called,
called for resuming
recently halted peace
negotiations between
the Turkish state and
the Kurdish guerilla
organization, the PKK.
The petition included
over two thousand
signatories, including
internationally
renowned feminist
scholars. In January
2016, the Turkish
president called the
signatories
“traitors,” which
ignited a witch-hunt,
including publishing
the names and photos
of signatories,
marking signatories’
office doors with red
paint crosses,
widespread
institutional
disciplinary
investigations,
suspensions,
dismissals, and
blacklistings, a mass
criminal prosecution
of all signatories
with accusations of
“terrorist
propaganda,” house
raids, detentions, and
arrests.<br>
<br>
Attacks on academics
have escalated
alarmingly in the
context of the
government’s
increasing
authoritarianism under
emergency rule,
declared after the
coup attempt in July
2016. For instance,
the government has
demanded that all
university deans and
presidents resign,
transferred the
authority to appoint
university presidents
directly to Turkey’s
president, cancelled
faculty elections,
closed various private
universities and
schools, suspended or
dismissed tens of
thousands of academics
and teachers, and
restricted academics’
international travel.
The scale of targeted
individuals and
institutions is
distressing. Freedom
of expression has been
gravely undermined,
with hundreds of media
outlets banned, more
than 130 journalists
in prison, hundreds of
civil society
organizations closed,
and parliamentarians
from opposing parties
arrested. Feminists
and LGBTIQ activists
are alarmed about the
deteriorating
political climate and
the increased
vulnerabilities posed
for women and gender
nonconforming
individuals. <br>
<br>
The National Women’s
Studies Association
condemns these attacks
on academic freedom
and autonomy and calls
for solidarity with
academics in/from
Turkey.<br>
<br>
<br>
Barbara Ransby,
President<br>
Elora Halim Chowdhury,
Vice President<br>
<em>Karma Chávez</em><em>,</em>
Treasurer<br>
Carrie Baker,
Secretary<br>
Vivian M. May, Past
President<br>
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