Turkish police arrested 17 people today, Tuesday, similar to a demonstration in which hundreds of students from the Bosphorus University in Istanbul participated, in protest against the appointment of a president close to the party of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Istanbul police said in a statement that the police raided 13 neighborhoods in the city at dawn on Tuesday, noting that the operation was still underway in search of 11 others.
Around a thousand people gathered near the university campus, to protest against Erdogan’s choice to preside over the Bosphorus University, Friday, which is a public institution in which lessons are given in English and part of the country’s elite graduated from it.
However, the appointment of a university president from outside it caused anger, knowing that Melih Polo tried in 2015 to run for the position of vice president under the banner of the Justice and Development Party led by Erdogan, which sparked outrage, and in addition to his association with the Justice and Development Party, his appointment by presidential decree sparked additional anger among students and professors. .
The students and the professor object to the appointment of Melih Polo, by decree of Erdogan personally, as he came from outside the university
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And if the president of the Bosphorus University was chosen in the past by election, then Erdogan took it upon himself to appoint university presidents after the coup attempt in 2016, which was followed by strict control of all institutions.
That year, Erdogan drew academic discontent with his first appointment as a mayor to replace the popular president of the Bosphorus University, who was elected just days before the coup attempt.
The police accuse the 28 suspects of violating the demonstrations law “of resisting a policeman while carrying out his duties, and new protest demonstrations are scheduled to be organized on Wednesday, despite the arrests.”
