Erdogan: Our universities are open to the world’s scholars who are facing pressure because of defending Gaza
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country’s universities are open to the world’s scholars defending the Gaza Strip, who are facing pressure in their current universities.
This came in a speech, on Wednesday, during an event distributing scientific and academic awards at the Presidential Complex in the capital, Ankara.
President Erdogan expressed his belief that the shameful scenes that occurred in universities considered prestigious in the West after the Gaza crisis will lead to accelerating another process.
He pointed out in this regard that the Israeli brutality, which has claimed the lives of more than 21,000 innocent Palestinians in Gaza, most of them children and women, since October 7, has clearly revealed those who truly defend human rights and dignity, and those who exploit them Just.
The Turkish President also stressed that all organizations active in defending democracy; From the Security Council to media institutions, and from the European Union to press organizations, they failed the Gaza test.
In a related context, Erdogan said, “The institutions that pay lip service and spend huge sums of money (defending the values of democracy) become completely worthless when the talk is about Israel and its injustice”.
He stressed that “prominent universities in the West also failed in the Gaza test, and not just international organizations, because they didn’t show any reaction to the destruction of universities in the Strip”.
He stressed that these universities were unable to raise their voices against the targeting of Palestinian scholars and academics who have won international awards.
Erdogan explained that everyone who criticized Israel, including students, faced a witch hunt in many world-famous educational institutions.
He said that scholars who acknowledge the existence of injustice in Gaza are today subjected to pressure and threats, as was the case in Nazi Germany 80 years ago.
He pointed out that “Germany today is still paying the price for Hitler’s actions, and for this reason it doesn’t say anything, with its head bowed, while Turkey does not owe anything to anyone”.
