Culture, Class, and Young Women in Turkey

The University in the Making of Authoritarian Turkey

“…Universities that remained relatively protected from government intrusion are particularly targetted. President Erdoğan's recent rector appointments to Boğaziçi University and the prison sentences given to students who protested his decision aims to undermine the faculty's autonomy in decision-making, abuses the power of law enforcement and the judiciary to suppress student dissent and fosters a climate of fear and intimidation (Alemdaroğlu, Babül 2021;Gambetti, Gökariksel 2022). The President's unwavering determination to subsume Boğaziçi against the strong opposition among faculty members, students and the wider society indicates a final stride in the expansion and intensification of authoritarianism in Turkey.…”