TURKEY’S revolutionary forces said today that protests centred on Bogazici University must remain a fight against fascism and oppression not for “liberal ideas of academic freedom.”
An editorial in the Ozgur Gelecek newspaper said that elements such as the Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP) wanted “to keep the resistance within ‘acceptable’ limits” amid fears of a new Gezi, the 2013 protests that nearly brought down the government.
Turkey’s second-largest political party wants the protests at the prestigious university in Istanbul to remain within the boundaries of campus politics, the newspaper said.
But the resistance that began over the imposition of pro-government rector Melih Bulu has broadened out to all layers of society, uniting students, trade union members and others in struggle against Turkey’s authoritarian ruling coalition.