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Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict

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  • Serhat Tutkal

    (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)

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This essay focuses on the anti-intellectualism in Turkey in relation to the oppression, persecution, and discrediting of critical academics. It shows how this anti-intellectualism affects the reproduction and re-legitimation of war policies in regards to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. To this end, first it presents excerpts from in-depth interviews with academics who were dismissed from universities by presidential decrees for signing a peace petition criticizing the military operations and human rights violations in Kurdish-majority cities. Subsequently, it shows some Twitter entries from a larger dataset where critical academics are attacked to legitimize police violence in a university campus. It concludes with underlining the importance of re-legitimation of critical academics and intellectual work in Turkey if authoritarianism is to be overcome.

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  • Serhat Tutkal, 2022. "Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict," The Commentaries, Transnational Press London, UK, vol. 2(1), pages 113-128, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:commjl:v:2:y:2022:i:1:p:113-128
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/tc.v2i1.2856
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