Very happy to join those certain circles, tightening like a noose
against Erdogan and his academic lackey. The progressive scholars have
really suffered in that country.
In 2019 when I had two week-long opportunities to mix with
eco-socialists in Istanbul, the first time was with exceptionally good
ecological economists at Bogazici
<http://www.ejolt.org/2011/09/bog-bogazici-university/>. Their analyses
of anti-extractivist struggles on the home turf but also around the
world are cutting edge, part of a global mapping project
<https://ejatlas.org/>. And so although it's an elite institution, there
are certainly excellent scholar-activists thick on the ground there.
More power to their struggle.
In July 2018, which as far as I know was the only time Erdogan
visited South Africa, it was to join the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South
Africa summit in Johannesburg's central business district as an
observer. Turkey's national tv celebrated
<https://www.trtworld.com/video/strait-talk/turkey-attends-brics-summit-and-protestors-demand-jobs-and-services-in-iraq/5b5b51020ab8e2110baeaab6>,
vainly hoping Erdogan could formally bring Turkey into the useless bloc.
Our Turkish solidarity friends launched a spirited protest
<https://stockholmcf.org/turkish-embassy-personnel-attack-protestors-in-pretoria/>
against Erdogan, suffering injuries in the process, as hundreds
protested the BRICS
<https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1987116/break-the-brics-protesters-march-outside-the-summit/>
at the main civic centre here in Joburg. Over to Trevor Ngwane
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z11ZfinxU4c> (a Soweto community
leader, Marxist, and current president of the SA Sociological
Association) to explain context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z11ZfinxU4c
On 2/15/2021 6:32 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Posted to FB by Ayça Çubukçu
Last week in Istanbul, not far from the gorgeous campus of Bogazici
University overlooking the Bosporus sea strip, residents of my
neighbourhood were banging on pots and pans at 9 pm in solidarity with
the students and faculty of the prestigious university who have been
protesting President Erdogan’s appointment of a new rector through a
decree mobilizing emergency powers.
Over the past month, spirited demonstrations against the undemocratic
appointment of Professor Melih Bulu—a member of President Erdogan’s
ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP—as the rector of
Bogazici University have spread well beyond campus walls, leading to
protests in major cities of Turkey including Ankara, Izmir, and Adana,
and even abroad, in New York, Paris, and Berlin...
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