The sultan has found his next target group as he continues to shrink the number and categories of Turks permitted to be found still acceptable instead of sheep for shearing to benefit the Turkish sultinate..
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...denounces student protesters as "terrorists" and vows to crack down on demonstrations opposing the appointment of a government loyalist to head Istanbul’s most prestigious university.
Students and faculty members of Bogazici University have spent weeks protesting Erdogan’s Jan. 1 appointment of Melih Bulu, an academic who once ran for parliament as a candidate for Erdogan’s party. They have called for Bulu to resign as the university’s rector and for the university to be allowed to elect its own president, saying the appointment was an affront to academic liberties.
Scores of students have been detained amid the protests, some taken away following raids of their homes.
"I do not accept these youngsters, who are members of terrorist groups, as sharing our country’s national and moral values," Erdogan says in a video address to thousands of ruling party members who are holding regional congresses.
"Are you students... or are you turbans who try to raid the office of the rector and occupy it?" he asks.
Erdogan goes on to say that his government would not allow mass anti-government protests like the ones that swept across
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
in 2013. The protests were sparked by the government’s construction plans at Gezi Park, adjacent to Istanbul main Taksim square.
"This country won’t be a country dominated by terrorists. We will never allow it," the
Tensions flared this week after a group of students were arrested over a poster, which was displayed at Bogazici University, that depicted Islam’s most sacred site with LGBT rights flags. The students were arrested over the weekend on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values.