Turkish Prisons Are Filled With Professors
And American faculty who are quick to boycott Israel couldn’t care less.
We have reported extensively on the purge of Turkish academia, and the relative inaction of American faculty who are quick to boycott Israel.
This article by the son of an imprisoned Turkish professor is chilling, Turkish Prisons Are Filled With Professors — Like My Father:
A Turkish professor who was my father’s colleague and frequently visited our house is now incapable of counting right amount of money to pay for a bottle of water at a prison canteen. He is traumatized as a result of days of harsh treatment during the interrogation. He is sharing a prison cell with my father, longtime friends, in western Turkey.
My father, a professor at Sakarya University for 16 years, is among nearly 2,500 academics who were dismissed and arrested in connection to the failed coup attempt on July 15. He would have never imagined that police would storm our house, just several days after the failed plot, and take him into custody. He was asked endless questions in 10 days under detention, for hours every day — questions that he has no answers for. He was rounded up just four days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a state of emergency rule that allows anyone to be detained up to 30 days without any charges. Turkey suspended European Convention on Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and there is no due process in a country that is still seeking to become a member of the European Union.
For weeks, his family and his lawyer could not meet with him. Because the investigation was confidential, he was refused to participate in his trial. How can one defend themselves if they have no idea with what they are charged with?
Read the whole thing.
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Fascism at it’s finest. [/sarc]
Well, at least we can take solace in the sure knowledge that if the regime had used ‘the N word’ or committed some other monstrous crime against humanity, American academia would be incensed.
Hypocrisy is the threshold requirement for admission to the ranks of the American ‘progressive’ demographic.