An all-out government disinformation against Boğaziçi protesters starts

From media outlets to social media accounts, from Erdoğan’s speeches to bureaucratic authorities’ statements, many academics (mostly women) are targeted, students criminalized… Yes, Soros is mentioned, too:

Erdoğan says that Osman Kavala's wife, Boğaziçi Professor Ayşe Buğra, is among "provocateurs representing (George) Soros" https://t.co/eQZtgwDidi

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) February 5, 2021

After the minister of interior, Bahçeli becomes the second senior politician whose tweets about the Boğaziçi University protests are restricted by Twitter.

Escalating protests over the appointment of a state-approved rector at a prestigious Istanbul university have become an unexpected catalyst for Turkey’s disillusioned and underemployed youth to vent their frustrations at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government.

Protests at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University and other parts of the country continue.

“I said, ‘You cannot struggle against the mafia with a judiciary which has surrendered to the mafia.’ This investigation is the very proof of what I said,” says Independent MP Ahmet Şık about the recent investigation launched against him.

Presidential Comms head Altun appears to say the Bogazici protests are about which race came from Central Asia, giving up countless martyrs in the process, to own their land, rather than something more prosaic like the political appointment of rectors: pic.twitter.com/BxXGR5Sphl

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) February 4, 2021

Twitter removes tweets by MHP leader calling Bogazici student protestors "poisonous snakes whose heads need to be crushed", and the MHP deputy leader has called for the UN and democratic nations to take action: https://t.co/TrO6KHl7N2

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) February 4, 2021

Turkey: IPI strongly condemns police attacks on journalists covering university protests