International Courant
ISTANBUL
The doorways of Turkish universities are open to teachers and college students from Western academic establishments who misplaced their jobs for opposing Israel’s massacres in Gaza, president of Türkiye’s Council of Increased Training (YOK) stated this week.
“As president of the Council of Increased Training, I wish to deal with the scientists and college students from Western universities who misplaced their jobs as a result of they opposed the massacres in Gaza: The doorways of Turkish universities are open to Western teachers and scientists. Come to our nation. These lands have all the time opened their doorways to oppressed Western folks,” stated Erol Ozvar, talking on the opening of a convention titled “Gaza Genocide Try: Tellings of an Eyewitness” on the Social Sciences College of Ankara (ASBU) offered by Ghassan Abu-Sitta, the Palestinian rector of Glasgow College, who volunteered as a physician throughout Israel’s siege of Gaza and was prevented from speaking about his experiences in some European nations.
“On the finish of the fifteenth century, simply as we opened our doorways to Jews persecuted in Europe, simply as we welcomed scientists beneath Nazi persecution and oppression on the eve and through the Second World Warfare, we will likely be very happy to welcome you as we speak. Within the coming days, we’ll arrange an utility web page for this goal with an announcement on the web site of the Council of Increased Training,” Ozvar added.
“We are going to enable college professors in Europe, Canada and america who’ve been dismissed attributable to their humanitarian actions and worldwide college students who’ve been separated from their universities to proceed their training in our nation, together with switch or particular pupil standing, if they need. From right here, we make an invite to worldwide college students learning within the West who’ve misplaced their jobs and studentship and invite them to this utility course of.”
Ozvar stated that college teachers and younger folks all over the world are protesting towards the massacres in Gaza with a conscience of humanity.
Explaining that college administrations, teachers and college students in Türkiye have additionally participated in these protests and condemned the genocide in Gaza, he stated: “Then again, within the face of those peaceable actions of teachers and college students in america, Western Europe and Canada, the so-called defenders of educational freedom, freedom of expression and democratic rights, Western college administrations take anti-democratic and freedom-restrictive measures and apply nice strain on college members.”
Mentioning that Palestinian lands and the Palestinians dwelling there are going by very troublesome occasions in comparison with the previous, he stated that tensions proceed within the area, which has hosted many civilizations all through historical past.
Highlighting that greater than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed within the Israeli assaults, Ozvar famous that the variety of Palestinians forcibly displaced from their houses exceeded 2 million.
He emphasised that Türkiye continues to defend the Palestinian trigger on each platform, including that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has all the time expressed Türkiye’s assist for Palestine in his speeches at worldwide conferences, offered proof of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories to his interlocutors and introduced that Türkiye would intervene within the ongoing genocide case towards Israel on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice.
Ozvar stated that as YOK, they opened the doorways of universities to Palestinian college students and teachers who needed to go away Gaza, including that “many Palestinian college students have been persevering with their training in our universities as of as we speak.”
‘Schengen entry ban one other instance of double customary of Western nations’
Ozvar stated that Abu-Sitta witnessed the crimes dedicated by the Israeli military at Palestinian hospitals in Gaza and reported what he noticed there to the prosecutor’s workplace on the Worldwide Prison Court docket within the context of its investigation regarding Israel.
Abu-Sitta was prevented, nonetheless, from talking about this in sure European nations.
“It is a clear violation of freedom of expression and one other instance of the double requirements of many Western nations. Your (Abu-Sitta) visits have revealed the double requirements within the West like a litmus paper. We invited you to Türkiye. Please freely categorical all of the occasions you witnessed, which aren’t allowed within the Schengen nations,” stated Ozvar.
ASBU Rector Musa Kazim Arican additionally careworn the significance of Abu-Sitta’s narration of his testimonies in Gaza on the convention, hoping that “Will probably be a program that heralds a free Palestine.”
Israel has killed greater than 36,000 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip since a cross-border assault by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 final yr, which killed round 1,200 folks.
The navy marketing campaign has turned a lot of the enclave of two.3 million folks into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless and vulnerable to famine.
Israel stands accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ), which in its newest ruling ordered it to instantly halt its operation in Rafah, a metropolis in southern Gaza the place greater than one million displaced Palestinians had sought refuge.
*Writing by Serdar Dincel from Istanbul
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