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Hello Everyone<br>
Here is a good article about the sweeping repression and dismissals
faced by Turkish academics within the context of political
authoritarianism in that state. Apologies for x-postings. <br>
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Please check it out for the inspiring examples of solidarity (inside
and outside Turkey) as well as the helpful list of things you can
do. There are also links to informative websites.<br>
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Please also listen, if you haven't already, to this important
segment from CBC The Current. It's about a Turkish academic who is
now stateless in Canada. It is the third half-hour segment in the
program that was aired this morning. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-22-2017-1.4034665">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-22-2017-1.4034665</a><br>
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Thanks,<br>
C<br>
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<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1386 .... March 22, 2017<br>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1386.php">Building
Solidarity through Standing Up for Truth<br>
Academics for Peace in Turkey</a></h1>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Çağlar Dölek and Gülden Özcan</h3>
<p>The fate of the neoliberal Islamist project of authoritarian
restoration in Turkey will be determined by an upcoming
referendum on April 16 of this year. The referendum will be held
under the conditions of a state of emergency in effect since the
July 15 coup attempt last year. The regime's use of the putsch
attempt to suppress all forms of dissent has quickly evolved
into an overriding choice to make the state of emergency the
permanent form of governance in Turkey. In this sense, the April
16 plebiscite on constitutional changes marks a defining stage
in the politics of violent polarization and oppression under way
for more than a decade whereby President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
and his cronies have increasingly paralyzed the social and
political fabric of the country in their relentless pursuit of
the project of a one-man rule.<br>
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The question on the ballot is nothing less than a version of
Führerprinzip, dubbed the “presidential system” in the managed
and heavily censored mass media discourse in Turkey. A permanent
Erdoğan presidency is offered as a panacea to the ruling classes
to resolve the constitutional and economic gridlock of the
neoliberal regime. However, as various polls are now signaling,
the swaying of the public opinion toward #NO, the government is
increasing the volume of suppression and making moves for a
total closure of public deliberation about the real content of
the regime change on the ballot. What is more (as vividly
experienced in the recent crisis over the politics of the far
right in Germany and the Netherlands), the ruling Justice and
Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) seems to be
panicking about an upset in the referendum, and resorting once
again to a vulgar politics of Turkish victimhood, this time
vis-à-vis Europe.<br>
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The unfolding dynamics of political power and Erdoğan's claim to
majoritarian rule makes the freefall and panic of the regime all
the more apparent. While there is a populist push to establish
one-man rule through a politics of political oppression from
above and mob rule from below, the widening mobilization of a
spectrum of opposition groups is forcing the regime to govern
through statutory decrees which bypass constitutional and
parliamentary checks and balances altogether. This is a
systematic, if not novel, resort to measures that attempt to
cage the socio-political fabric of Turkish society into a
pro-capital, repressive and radical conservative settlement. The
mass dismissals from different branches of the public sector are
not only directed against the alleged coup plotters, they are
also used as the key means of purging progressive, left-wing,
and secular cadres from the public institutions. The case of
Academics for Peace is one of the most notable examples
demonstrating the political motives of the purges and the
ideological content of the restoration project being pursued by
the AKP.</p>
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