{"id":1257,"date":"2023-01-31T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:19:55","slug":"commentaries-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"Commentaries #22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict<\/strong><br>by Serhat Tutkal, Universidad Nacional de Colombia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive summary:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This essay focuses on the anti-intellectualism in Turkey in relation to the oppression, persecution, and discrediting of critical academics. It shows how this anti-intellectualism affects the reproduction and re-legitimation of war policies in regards to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. To this end, first it presents excerpts from in-depth interviews with academics who were dismissed from universities by presidential decrees for signing a peace petition criticizing the military operations and human rights violations in Kurdish-majority cities. Subsequently, it shows some Twitter entries from a larger dataset where critical academics are attacked to legitimize police violence in a university campus. It concludes with underlining the importance of re-legitimation of critical academics and intellectual work in Turkey if authoritarianism is to be overcome.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/com\/article\/view\/2856\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/com\/article\/view\/2856<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EU Turkey Civic Commission<br>www.eutcc.net<br>Twitter: @EUTCC1<br>Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflictby Serhat Tutkal, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Executive summary:&nbsp; This essay focuses on the anti-intellectualism in Turkey in relation to the oppression, persecution, and discrediting of critical&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}