Professors continue daily protest as homophobic assault against protesters intensifies at Boğaziçi University #AsagiBakmayacagiz

ISTANBUL — For several weeks — rain, shine, or even snow — a rebellion has been underway in one of the most hallowed establishments of Turkish academia: the campus of Bogazici University in Istanbul. Every day, faculty members

The Istanbul Governorate calls the Bogazici protestors against the presidential appointment of their rector "a group of demonstrators including staff members and LGBT Club members", in line with other government messaging switching the focus from academic freedom to homosexuality https://t.co/axtGAKqn5X

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) February 2, 2021

Twitter decided that Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu's tweet violated the Twitter Rules about hateful conduct. This is the first time Twitter deployed its policy on a Turkish politician. Twitter is yet to decide whether to "come to Turkey or not". https://t.co/lyZ4GV3Vak

— Yaman Akdeniz (@cyberrights) February 2, 2021

Interior Minister Soylu releases statement emphasising his points that the Boğaziçi protestors are blasphemous "LGBT perverts" who deserve no tolerance and that politicians sympathetic to them are puppets of an outside agency https://t.co/1XB4DEa0TV

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) February 2, 2021

After it was announced that Dr. Oğuzhan Aygören, a lecturer from Boğaziçi University, was appointed as an advisor to Melih Bulu, Aygören has released a statement and said, “It is impossible for me to accept this duty.”

PROTEST AGAINST APPOINTED RECTOR: Boğaziçi University protests: 98 students released from detention

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Detained by the police during their protests against the appointed rector at and outside the South Campus of Boğaziçi University, 98 students have been released from detention after giving their statements at the police department.

ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Boğaziçi University’s LGBTI+ Studies Club closed by the appointed rector

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Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun has shared a decision with the signature of rector Melih Bulu and announced that Boğaziçi University’s LGBTI Studies Candidate Club has been closed, arguing that the protests are “about it all.”