Suspended academician in Turkey taken into custody for 12th time for saying ‘I want my job back’

Academician Nuriye Gülmen, who has been suspended from her position at Turkey’s Selçuk University with the order of an emergency decree in Turkey, was taken into custody for the 12th time earlier this week.

She has been regularly coming near the Human Rights Statute at Yüksel street, one of the busiest streets of downtown Ankara, to hold a banner that reads ‘I want my job back’ in order to demonstrate and make her voice heard.

However, at each attempt, she was taken into custody by police through battering, without even being able to hold her demonstration.

Earlier in November, when she was being taken into custody for the 6th time, she had said: “Give me my banner back. Enough! I want my job back as an academician who has been suspended. I’m not a thief, not a murderer; but I’m constantly taken into custody. I’m going to continue my fight. I want to keep saying ‘I want my job back’; so, let me!"

More recently, sharing her comments from her personal twitter account, Gülmen wrote: “I was again able to manage opposing the 2911 (article) by myself. I’m again under custody. Laborers in resistance will have victory!”

Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/akademisyen-nuriye-gulmen-12-kez-gozaltina-alindi-136530.html