Action for Nehir and Nevin... A banner calling for Minister Yusuf Tekin to resign was hung at the university: 'If there is no future for us, there will be no peace for you!'

Before Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin's visit to Kadıköy High School, he said: "If you do not come to us, there will be no peace for you! Yusuf Tekin resign!" A protest was held at Galatasaray University (GSÜ) for two women from TİP Students who were arrested for hanging a banner that read.

According to BirGün's report, students hung the same banner on campus in support of their classmates Nehir Dizdar and Nevin Tekin, who were arrested for the banner calling for Yusuf Tekin's resignation. GSÜ students demanded the immediate release of their deskmates Nehir Dizdar and Istanbul University (IU) student Nevin Tekin and for Yusuf Tekin to resign.

It was learned that Istanbul University student Tekin and Galatasaray University student Dizdar, who were detained in a midnight raid on their homes, were referred to the court with a request for arrest without even taking their statements. Dizdar and Tekin were arrested yesterday on the charge of "threatening Yusuf Tekin" in court.

GSÜ students reserved a chair in all classrooms for their deskmate Nehir Dizdar on Monday morning. Dizdar's photo was written on the empty chairs, with the words "This chair is empty because our rowmate was arrested!" Written posters were hung.

"WHAT ARE THE REAL THREAT ARE MILLIONS OF WORKERS"

Galatasaray University students marched on campus and then read a joint press release. The full statement is as follows:

"A banner was hung before Minister of Education Yusuf Tekin's visit to Kadıköy High School: 'If there is no future for us, there will be no peace for you!' Our friends Nehir and Nevin, who hung this banner, were arrested yesterday for an illegitimate, fabricated reason such as threatening Yusuf Tekin. They were arrested by the regime, which could not tolerate even criticism of the futurelessness to which the students were condemned!

We will not refrain from holding accountable Yusuf Tekin, who made his reputation with his reactionary policies in education during his term of office. It is clear that the responsibility for the increasing violence in schools today and the children forced to work in terrible conditions by the MESEM project is also responsible. Your oppression will not silence us. As students of Galatasaray University, we shout once again, as we shouted in front of the Ministry of Education together with education workers after the school attacks: Yusuf Tekin resign!

Today, we are together to show solidarity with our friends. The One Man regime, with its policies that offer education to capital, deepens student poverty day by day. The real 'threat' is the millions of workers and young people who are targeted by the government for reasons that are not even legitimate and are burdened with crises. Let's repeat it once again for our friends: If there is no future for us, there will be no peace for you! Nehir and Nevin should be released immediately!”