Last week the Turkish military started bombing Afrin and now the Turkish military is threatening Afrin by marching across the border and occupying Afrin with jihad mercenaries. Turkey wants active or passive approval for this attack from countries such as the USA, Russia, Germany, etc. The next war is about to start.
Afrin has been a self-governing canton for years, with one woman and one man each having equal rights in the canton administration. Afrin as part of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava) was important in the fight against IS. IS was beaten off both in Iraq and in Syria by the active resistance of the Kurdish, Arab and Christian populations. What IS didn’t accomplish, is now going to be accomplished by the Turkish Republic: Destruction of the democratic structure in this region, where Christians, Muslims and Yazidis etc. live together peacefully.
Turkey wants to continue its warfare despite internal and international resistance. One can remember that the peace academics were dismissed and persecuted because they didn’t accept the bombing of the Kurdish cities in Turkey. There are many HDP and CHP members, journalists and intellectuals who have spoken out against the war. Turkey still trusts that it can start wars and carry out massacres because even the genocide against Armenians is not recognized by Turkey. The stability achieved in Afrin is being undermined because Turkey does not want a democratic structure in this region, which could be seen as a possible alternative for the people of the region.
Therefore, we call on unions, democratic parties, intellectuals, academics and activists to speak out against the next war in this region. Avoid any military and political support of Turkey. Stop arm sales.
To sign: halisyildirim@gmx.net
Signers:
Dr.Halis Yildirim / Munich - GEW member ( The Education and Science Workers' Union)
Assoc. Prof. Ides Nicaise - Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Prof. em. Sabra J. Webber - The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
Dr. Mesut Keskin, University of Hildesheim, Faculty Member, Institut of Philosophy
Prof. em. John Weeks - SOAS University of London
Prof. Dr. Verena Krieger (Jena)
Prof. Dr. Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. -American University of Central Asia, Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
Full Prof. Luigi De Gennaro, PhD - , Dept. of Psychology, Univeristy of Rome Sapienza
Kamuran Akın -Humboldt University PhD Candidate and Academics for Peace from Turkey
Arash Dosthossein – Refugee activist – Refugee struggle for freedom, Germany
Prof. Silke-Maria Weineck - German Studies and Comparative Literature, Translation Advisor, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Narges Nasimi – Refugee activist – Refugee struggle for freedom, Germany
Hasan Saglam - Ex-refugee from Turkey and artist and autor
Meryem Cag, Refugee, Member of Trade Union BES (Turkey)
Assoc. Professor Sabra Webber - The Ohio State University
Prof. Alan Goodman - Biological Anthropology, Hampshire Colleg
Jeff McMahan - White's Professor of Moral Philosophy. Professorial Fellow, Corpus Christi College - Oxford
Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Columbia University
Em.Prof.Dr. Herman De Ley - Ghent University, Belgium
Serhat Yildirim - medical student Ghent University (Belgium)
Dr. Ersin Asliturk - Ph.D., Instructor, Psychology and Social science, Douglas College
Prof. Michael Loughlin - Fellow, England Centre for Practice Development, Canterbury Christ Church University
Daniele Savi - Italy
Prof. Dr. J.T.V.M. (Joop) de Jong - University Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick - Universität Bielefeld
Süleyman Ates -Bundesausschuss für multikulturelle Angelegenheiten der GEW
Prof. Mehmet Ugur - University of Greenwich
Prof. Drucilla Cornell - Rutgers University
Ludo De Brabander - representative from Vrede vzw, peace organisation in Belgium (www.vrede.be)
Prof. Mine Gencel Bek -Academics for Peace
Professor Toby Miller - Loughborough University London
Christian Kesteloot - Division of Geography and Tourism, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven
Andrew Crosby, researcher, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Prof. James Dickins -Prof. of Arabic, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Assoc. Prof. Robin Celikates - Department Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
Prof. Charles Taylor - McGill University
Dr. Nil Mutluer, Humboldt university
Prof. Alex Demirovic - Universität Frankfurt
Prof Dr. Patrizia Nanz - Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies University of Postdam
Dr. Utku Sayın - Universität Bilefeld
Prof. Mehmet Oturan - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Prof. Dr. Andreas Arndt - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor Malcolm J. W. Povey BA, PhD, FInstP, CPhys, CEng , Professor of Food Physics, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds
Dr. Deniz Yonucu - Leibniz-ZMO
Prof. Avital Ronell - NYU
Marie Scheirlinck - Belgium Bacbi
Dr. Mehmet Rauf Kesici - University of Duisburg-Essen
Dr. Mustafa Sener - University of Bamberg - Academics for Peace from Turkey
Dr. Hakan Mercan- Germany - Academics for Peace from Turkey
Prof. Dr. Markus Tiedemann - Philosophiedidaktik und für Ethik, Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr. Christine Hanke, Media Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth
Dr. Nicholas Smith - Senior lecturer (ph.d.), Department of Philosophy, School of Culture and Education - Södertörn University
Prof. Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College - Columbia University
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Béatrice Hendrich - Junior-Professur für türkische Sprache und Kultur, Orientalisches Seminar der Universität zu Köln
Prof. Judith Butler - University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Seyla Benhabib - Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
Prof. Athena Athanasiou - Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Studies, Panteion University, Greece
Em. Prof. Aviel Verbruggen - University of Antwerp
Prof. Werner Ruf - Universität Kassel
Howard Winant- Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Prof. Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, NYU - USA
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Müller-Schöll – Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Sabine Hark -Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre -Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (ZIFG), Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies, TU Berlin
Prof. Catherine Malabou - Kingston University
Dr. Daniel Bendix - University of Kassel
Prof Dr. Daniel Loick- Goethe-University Frankfurt
Prof. Dr.em. Jan Engelen- Kath. Univ. Leuven, Belgium
Kevin Rittberger - Author, Berlin
Dr. Andrew Chitty, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex
Phd. Özgür Ünveren , University of Marburg - Academics for Peace
Assoc. Prof. Engin Sustam - University of Geneva
Prof. em. Prof. Sondra Hale - Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Asst. Prof. Marina Sitrin - Univeristy Binghamton
Konstanze Schmitt, artist, Berlin
Prof. em. Frank Roels - MD, PhD, FRMS, Universiteit Gent
Sima Aprahamian Hovhannessian - Ph.D, Research Associate , Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
Prof. Dr. Hauke Brunkhorst – Europa-Universität Flensburg
Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen - Universitetet i Oslo
Dr. Frieder Vogelmann, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen
Asst. Prof. Ozlem Goner - Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Asst. Prof. Karen Pinto - Islamic and Middle Eastern History, Boise State University
Prof. Dr. Gie van den Berghe – Department of Ethics, University of Ghent (Belgium)
Dr. Karin Verelst, philosopher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prof. em. Jonathan Rosenhead, London School of Economics
Prof. Dr. em. Madeline Lutjeharms - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dr. Esmeray Yogun CNAM Paris France
Dr. Dagmar Comtesse, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Exzellenzcluster Normative Orders, Frankfurt
Dr. Nozomi Takahashi, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr. Eva Meyer, author and filmmaker, Berlin
Prof. Konrad Ott - CAU zu Kiel
Tina Turnheim – PhD candidate, Berlin
Dr Nicola Pratt - University of Warwick, UK
Dr. Mete Çetik - Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi
Assoc. Prof. Stefan Andreas Kipfer - York University
Asst. Prof. Steven Klein - Political Science, University of Florida
Assoc. Prof. Dr Susanne Bauer, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo
Dr Les Levidow, Senior Research Fellow, Open University, UK
Assoc. Prof. Ariel Salzmann - Islamic and World History, Department of History, Queen’s University
Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen, Theory, Practice, and Communication of Contemporary Art , Institute for Art History and Cultural Studies, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer - Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Siena
Prof. Haim Bresheeth - SOAS, London
Prof. Heinz Kurz - Universität Graz
Prof. Eran Schaerf, Zurich University of the Arts
Dr. Candan Hizel, Perry PhD, HDR, DABCC, FCHAS
Prof. Charles Larmore - Brown Universtiy
Prof. em. Sherna Berger Gluck - California State University
Prof. Bonnie Honig - Brown University
Prof. Michael Meranze- UCLA
Prof. María do Mar Castro Varela, Alice Salomon University, Berlin
Dr. Hatice Pinar Senoguz - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Prof. Patrick Williams - Literary and Cultural Studies, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Prof. em. Nick Havely - English & Related Literature, University of York U
Dr. Winnie Lem, International Development Studies, Trent University
Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht, Universität Bremen
Distinguished Professor em. Angela Davis - History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Prof. Dr. Thomas Meier, Universität Heidelberg
Prof. Werner Bonefeld, University of York
Dr. Franziska Müller, University of Kassel
Dr. Alper Açık, Academics for Peace
Prof. Dr. Marianne Pieper, Fachbereich Sozialwissenshaften, Universität Hamburg
Roberto Veneziani - Queen Mary University of London
Prof. Özen Odağ - Psychology, Touro College Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dr.hc.Frigga Haug - FU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dr.hc.Wolfgang Fritz Haug - FU Berlin
Dr. Knut Tullius - Sozialwissenschaftler, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Elmar Altvater - FU Berlin
Hauke Heumann, Schauspieler
Prof. Thomas Kilpper - Faculty of Art, Music and Design, KMD, Bergen University, Norway
Corinna Eleonore Trogisch, Social scientist, PhD at Leibniz University, Hannover
Dr. Nurhak Polat, Bremen University, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Science
Henning Bochert - Autor, Dramaturg , Berlin
Ivor Stodolsky - Co-Founding Director and Curator, Artists at Risk (AR) www.artistsatrisk.org
Dr. Guido Kirsten, Vertretungsprofessor, Institut für Film-, Theater- und empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Mainz
Andreas Siekmann, Prof. Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
Alice Creischer, Prof. Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
Prof. em. Andreas A Huyssen - Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature -Columbia
Prof. em. Carol Delaney, Stanford University
Marita Muukkonen - Curator, Helsinki
Nazan Üstündağ, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Dr. Nevra AKDEMİR, Independent Researcher, Berlin
Prof. David Klein - Mathematics, California State University Northridge
Çiçek Ilengiz, PhD fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Yasmine Siblot, professeure de sociologie, Université Paris 8, France
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann - Kunstgeschichte der Moderne und Nachmoderne,Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften
Dr. Simon Teune, Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Susan Wright - Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
Assoc. Prof. Janick Schaufelbuehl - University of Lausanne
Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg - President, PLATO, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College
Kariane Westrheim, Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway
Prof. Sally Sedgwick - University of Illinois at Chicago
Assoc. Prof. Norma Claire Moruzzi -University of Illinois at Chicago
Prof. Sibylle Fischer, NYU
Prof. Christie McDonald - Harvard
María Ferrara Jiménez Barrio - performing artist, Gestalt therapist, yoga teacher - Berlin
Baran Caginli, artist and researcher , Helsinki
Prof. Dr. Helene Decke-Cornill -Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg
Prof. em. Richard A. Walker - Geography, Director, Living New Deal Project, University of California
Matthias Naumann, writer & publisher, Futur II Konjunktiv, Berlin
Inga Zimprich, artist, Feminist Health Care Research Group, Berlin
Prof. Susan Buck-Morss, CUNY Graduate Center
Prof. Michael Lambek, FRSC, Canada Research Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough
Prof. Adi Ophir, The Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Program for Middle East Studies, Brown University
Anand Pillay, University of Notre Dame, USA, and University of Leeds, UK
Friederike Schneider - Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Prof. John Chalcraft - Middle East History and Politics, Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
Dr. Hilmi Tezgör - University Duisburg-Essen
Binna Choi, director of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Prof. Beth Baron, Disting - History, City University of New York
Prof. Michael Lowy, directeur de recherche émérite, CNRS
Dr Stefano Ba' - PhD, MA, 'Laurea' (BA hon.), Lecturer, Institute for Childhood and Education, Leeds Trinity University
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