Tag Archives: METU

After GEZI PARK and GULSUYU the struggle continues at METU: Let’s protect our urban habitat against violation and abuse!

Our living spaces are perpetually threatened by all institutions of the governing political logic. Not long ago, this logic had shown its dark and revanchist face through the clouds of tear gas during Gezi and it’s now re-surfacing on bumpers of bulldozers destroying the Middle East Technical University (METU) campus, one of the few remaining green spaces of Ankara. What [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet Daily News: Clashes erupt in ODTÜ campus as university returns municipality payment for removal of trees

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Clashes have erupted on the campus of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) between police and people gathered to protest the removal of trees for a road construction passing through the campus. The police repeatedly used tear gas to disperse crowds on the night of Oct. 21. Hundreds of protesters have been present on campus since the morning, attempting to [...] → Read the full article…

Al Jazeera: Demonstrator’s death stirs protests in Turkey

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Dissident groups stage demonstrations after death of 22-year-old man during clashes with police in country’s southeast. Anti-government protesters have gathered in Turkey after a demonstrator died during a protest in the southeastern province of Hatay. Hundreds of demonstrators marched to Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday after Taksim Solidarity Platform, an umbrella group of Turkish dissidents, called for a gathering to mark the death [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Police resort to tear gas to quell protests denouncing campus-crossing road at METU

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Students of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) gathered inside the campus to denounce a road project that will lead to the demolition of part of the university’s forested area on Sept. 6. Police resorted to a brutal crackdown to quell the protests that raged throughout the day.  Students first gathered during the morning and stood in front of construction vehicles, [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: METU Resists to Road Construction

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Middle East Technical University (METU) students and some Gezi Park forums in Ankara have launched a protest in order to prevent a planned road construction through METU campus and forest. Middle East Technical University (METU) students have set up tents and launched a protest against the planned road construction between Anadolu Boulevard  and Konya province, as construction workers have advanced [...] → Read the full article…