Tag Archives: Student activism

Hurriyet Daily News: Mixed-student apartments home to terrorist and illegal organizations, interior minister says

n_57508_4

Interior Minister Muammer Güler brought another dimension to the debate on mixed-student housing, arguing that many of these apartments harbored terror and other illegal activities, such as prostitution. “We are considering the issue from the viewpoint of a fight against terrorism. Particularly apartments, student residences and lodging houses where university students are living are places that terror groups and other [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: 82 Students Expelled From Residence Due to Gezi Protests

490-254

82 university students have been expelled from state-run student residences in Samsun for attending Gezi Resistance protests – a penalty that also included the suspension of their scholarships and loans. 82 university students have been indefinitely expelled from state-run student residences in the northern province of Samsun for being detained during Gezi Resistance protests – a penalty that also included [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: METU Resists to Road Construction

490-254 (1)

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…

Open Democracy: Changing three young Turkish lives

6

One of the greatest accomplishments of the protests, for these three individuals, was the chance to meet and experience unity with people from different religions, classes and ethnicities. Although the Gezi protests may have faded a little over the past six weeks, they haven’t for protesters. No youngster in Turkey has ever seen such massive state violence in action before. Before [...] → Read the full article…