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Students and faculty at top Turkish university battle Erdogan’s attempt at control Kareem Fahim © Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images Turkish police block the entrance of the Bogazici University in Istanbul, on Feb. 1, 2021. ISTANBUL The Turkish government s appointment of an outside rector to an esteemed Istanbul university has led to weeks of demonstrations, hundreds of arrests and some of the most vocal and sustained complaints in years against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan s expansive powers. The protests began in early January, after Erdogan’s government appointed an academic with ties to the ruling party as rector of Istanbul’s Bogazici University, one of the country’s most competitive schools and a bastion of liberal ideas. Students and faculty members complained that the­ appointment trampled a ­decades-long tradition of Bogazici’s rectors being selected by the university and that the appointee, Melih Bulu, a former politician, was unquali

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