<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Orsan Senalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:15 AM<br>Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: email from a Turkish friend<br>To: "<<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>>, Discussion list about the WSF and social movement in general <<a href="mailto:WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net">WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net</a>>, squares <<a href="mailto:squares@lists.takethesquare.net">squares@lists.takethesquare.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="auto"><div><br>Thanks Peter, forwarding ..</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> peter waterman <<a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 21 Jul 2016 21:03:57 GMT+2<br><b>To:</b> Örsan Şenalp <<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com" target="_blank">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Fwd: Fwd: email from a Turkish friend</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Just in case you have missed any of this, Orsan. Anissa is an Algerian-French friend in NYC.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small">P<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">anissa Helie</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anissa.helie@gn.apc.org" target="_blank">anissa.helie@gn.apc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:35 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Fwd: email from a Turkish friend<br>To: Peter Waterman <<a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a>>, Gina Vargas <<a href="mailto:ginvargas@gmail.com" target="_blank">ginvargas@gmail.com</a>>, Meredith Tax <<a href="mailto:meredithtax@gmail.com" target="_blank">meredithtax@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
  

    
  
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    fyi,<br>
    with hugs,<br>
    anissa<br>
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      <div><font face="Times New Roman">Some
          of you very kindly asked about our friends in Turkey in this
          terrible time.  The email below is from one of them.  As per
          her request, I have eliminated anything that would identify
          her. </font><br>
        <font face="Times New Roman">The situation is dire.  She sent
          this email a couple of days ago, so some of this is old news. 
          As you know, the State of Emergency has been declared.  She
          also sent links to some important articles.  Here they are:<br>
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        <div><font face="Times New Roman">Ayse Kadioglu: <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/ay-e-kad-o-lu/coup-d-tat-attempt-turkey-s-reichstag-fire" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/ay-e-kad-o-lu/coup-d-tat-attempt-turkey-s-reichstag-fire</a></font></div>
        <div><font face="Times New Roman">Zeynep Gambetti: <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/zeynep-gambetti/failed-coup-attempt-in-turkey-victory-of-democracy" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/zeynep-gambetti/failed-coup-attempt-in-turkey-victory-of-democracy</a> </font></div>
        <div><font face="Times New Roman">Cihan Tugal: <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/cihan-tugal/turkey-coup-aftermath-between-neo-fascism-and-bonapartism" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/cihan-tugal/turkey-coup-aftermath-between-neo-fascism-and-bonapartism</a></font></div>
        <div><font face="Times New Roman">Umut Ozkirimli: <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/umut-ozkirimli/very-turkish-abduction-from-seraglio-and-crocodile-tears-of-west" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/umut-ozkirimli/very-turkish-abduction-from-seraglio-and-crocodile-tears-of-west</a> </font></div>
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          <div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear friends,</font>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">Thank you all for your
                messages of solidarity and support! </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font>
              <div><font face="Times New Roman">I am writing this joint
                  email to give you a brief update on the situation in
                  Turkey. <br>
                </font></div>
            </div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* More than 50 thousand
                people from different state agencies (including police,
                military and the judiciary) and institutions of
                secondary and higher education have been suspended from
                their positions (3000 prosecutors and judges, more than
                8000 police, more than 35000 teachers and other staff
                from the Ministry of Education...) </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* ALL deans across Turkey
                (more than 1500) have been asked to resign (including
                ours), after an emergency meeting with all university
                presidents at the Higher Education Council. <a href="http://bianet.org/english/politics/176916-council-of-higher-education-demands-resignation-of-every-dean" target="_blank">http://bianet.org/english/politics/176916-council-of-higher-education-demands-resignation-of-every-dean</a> </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Yesterday, no university
                professor (nor any other state employee) was allowed to
                leave the country, without authorization from Ankara. We
                have friends who were at the airport all day, ultimately
                having to return home. Today, the Higher Education
                Council (HEC) issued a declaration cancelling all
                academic & personal leaves and appointments
                (including sabbatical leaves). It seems that none of us
                can leave Turkey until further notice - including for
                conferences and sabbaticals. Those who are on vacation -
                inside or outside Turkey - are also being asked to
                return (has not happened at Sabanci yet, but colleagues
                from other state and private universities have been
                recalled from their vacations and leaves hours after the
                official letter from the HEC arrived at the
                universities). Tomorrow, we will have a better sense of
                how this will unfold. </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Will they expand the
                purge to not only suspend academics but to more
                aggressively pursue the case against the academics for
                peace? who knows... </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Licenses for 25 TV and
                radio stations (alleged to be affiliated with the Gulen
                community) have been revoked</font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://bianet.org/english/media/176914-rtuk-revokes-licenses-of-25-tv-radio-channels" target="_blank">http://bianet.org/english/media/176914-rtuk-revokes-licenses-of-25-tv-radio-channels</a><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* You may have been
                reading the US (and other states') warnings regarding
                more ISIS attacks being expected in different parts of
                Turkey. From all we can gather, the security forces, the
                government and Erdogan are channeling all state
                resources towards silencing all possible opposition and
                controlling all institutions, at the same time as they
                go after the religious Gulen community that is believed
                to have been behind the coup attempt - instead of going
                after ISIS cells located across Turkey. </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* You may also know that
                since the night of the coup attempt, people have been
                called to gather in public squares to continue the
                "democracy watch" (including in Taksim, which is finally
                open to protests - but of course only to pro-government
                protests). Most of these "people" are men, almost all
                are government supporters, frequently chanting Islamic
                verses and prayers, and asking for revenge and the
                reinstitution of the death penalty - rather than a move
                towards a more democratic Turkey. </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Several Alevi
                (heterodox, non-Sunni) neighborhoods and two churches
                across Turkey have been attacked by some of these
                "pro-democracy / anti-coup" groups... </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* The PM, Erdogan and
                other officials have announced that they will "issue
                arms" to civilians so that they can "protect themselves"
                (and read this in line of the previous bullet) </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Erdogan, the PM, and the
                ultranationalist MHP party leader have declared that
                they would support the reconstitution of the death
                penalty...</font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Erdogan has also
                announced that "whether they like it or not, we will go
                ahead with the construction of the historic military
                barracks and a mosque in Taksim" (i.e. Gezi Park being
                turned into a "guarded" shopping center and who knows
                what else, and a big mosque being built at the entrance
                of Istiklal street) <a href="http://bianet.org/english/politics/176887-erdogan-we-will-build-military-barracks-in-gezi-whether-they-like-it-or-not" target="_blank">http://bianet.org/english/politics/176887-erdogan-we-will-build-military-barracks-in-gezi-whether-they-like-it-or-not</a> </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Today, the PM opened the
                parliamentary meeting with verses from the Quran "in the
                name of Allah" (first time in Turkish history) - and
                since the night of the coup attempt, special prayers
                have been recited in mosques on a daily basis (in
                addition to the regular prayers), in addition to calls
                by imams to oppose the coup in the name of Allah and
                Islam. (the mosques have been the main means of
                organizing anti-coup / "pro-democracy" gatherings since
                Friday. </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* on the other hand, it
                has been announced that no religious services will be
                given for the "coup plotters" - and mind you, all Muslim
                funerals in Turkey are religious ceremonies by default. <a href="http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/176910-religious-affairs-no-religious-service-for-bodies-of-coup-plotters" target="_blank">http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/176910-religious-affairs-no-religious-service-for-bodies-of-coup-plotters</a> </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* On the night of the coup
                attempt, in his speech at the Ataturk Airport, Erdogan
                called this failed attempt "a gift/blessing from God" -
                indeed, he and the government are using it to suspend
                even the pretense of any democratic, legal procedure...
                (I should of course add that, along with many others, I
                am relieved that the coup attempt failed rather promptly
                - many more lives could have been lost if it had been
                longer or more widespread). </font></div>
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            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* Erdogan and the
                government have announced that they will be making a
                "very important" statement tomorrow - the rumor is that
                it will be a form of emergency rule. </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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            <div><font face="Times New Roman">* No doubt, this will be
                followed by a move to change the constitution towards a
                presidential regime. </font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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            <div><font face="Times New Roman">This is basically where we
                stand as of tonight...</font></div>
            <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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            <div><font face="Times New Roman">I wanted to send a brief
                update for you all before things get even worse - as
                they might. </font></div>
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