Despite their lack of involvement and their opposition to any coup in Turkey, academics in Turkey have been severely affected by the actions of the Turkish government – universities shut down, staff suspended and terminated from their positions and some detained and arrested. Due process has not been followed and guilt or innocence doesn’t appear to make a difference in actions taken. CCS would like to demonstrate the extent of the effect this has had on the Turkish academic community as of July 26 (please be aware that these numbers change daily).
Note: This information is preliminary and we welcome any corrections and additions.
Suspensions
Abant İzzet Baysal University: 30 academics and four administrative staff.
Adnan Menderes University: 19 academics, 11 administrative staff.
Afyon Kocatepe University: 40 academics, 16 administrative staff.
Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University: 11 academics, an administrative staff.
Atatürk University: 22 academics, eight administrative staff.
Balıkesir University: 31 academics.
Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University: Nine academics, three administrative staff.
Bayburt University: 5 academics, 11 administrative staff.
Bingol University: 49
Bozok University: 76 academics, 38 administrative staff.
Bülent Ecevit University: 20 academics, 11 administrative staff.
Celal Bayar University: 84 academics, 18 administrative staff.
Cumhuriyet University: Seven academics.
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University: 152 academics, 20 administrative staff.
Dicle University: 56 staff, a rector.
Dokuz Eylül University: 2 academics, an administrative staff.
Düzce University: 16 academics.
Erciyes University: 16 academics.
Erzincan University: 27
Gazi University: Rector has been suspended.
Gaziosmanpaşa University: 17 academics, five administrative staff.
Hakkari University: Hakkari University: 12 staff.
Iğdır University: 10 academics, one administrative.
İstanbul University: 95 academics.
Katip Çelebi University: 65 academics, 15 administrative staff.
Sütçü İmam University: 60 academics, 19 administrative staff.
Karabük University: 23 academics, six administrative staff have been suspended.
Marmara University: 84
Mersin University: 16
Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University: Two academics, four administrative staff.
Niğde University: 181 staff including 124 administrative.
Ondokuz Mayıs University: 23 academics.
Pamukkale University: 43 academics and administrative staff.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University: Nine academics and two administrative staff.
Sakarya University: 45 academics.
Selçuk University: 167 academics, 10 administrative staff.
Siirt University: 13 academics, two administrative staff.
Uşak University: Nine academics.
Van Yüzüncü Yıl University: Due to coup attempt investigation seven academics, 10 peace declaration signatory academics.
Yıldız Technical University: Rector has been suspended.
Yalova University: Rector has been suspended.
Detentions and arrests
Atatürk University: 10 detentions.
Celal Bayar University: 20 detentions.
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University: Seven arrests.
Çukurova University: 19 detentions.
Dicle University: 70 detentions, an arrest.
Gazi University: One detention.
Hakkari University: 1 detention
Harran University: 21 detentions.
İstanbul University: 31 detentions.
Kanuni University: One detention.
Kırklareli University: 5 detentions.
Yalova University: One detention.
Universities that have been shut down: 15
15 universities that have been shut down by statutory decree regarding the measures that taken within the scope of State of Emergency as follows.
Altın Koza (İpek) University(Ankara)
Bursa Orhangazi University (Bursa)
Canik Başarı University (Samsun)
Selahattin Eyyubi University (Diyarbakır)
Fatih University (İstanbul)
Melikşah University (Kayseri)
Mevlana University (Konya)
Şifa University (İzmir)
Turgut Özal University (Ankara)
Zirve University (Gaziantep)
Kanuni University (Adana)
İzmir University (İzmir)
Murat Hüdavendigar University (İstanbul)
Gediz University (İzmir)
Süleyman Şah University (İstanbul)
The professors who, earlier – prior to the coup attempt and having no relation to the coup attempt, had signed the Academics for Peace petition and are not in favor of any coup from any sector of the community, are being affected by the purges and being terminated. Signatories who had not been terminated or arrested previous to the coup are now being terminated:
Hakkari University: 2 terminated
Tuncell University: 1 terminated with 7 others threatened with terminations