'The socialist struggle is being targeted through fascist attacks in universities'<Speaking about the fascist attacks at universities, the young people stated that the attacks stemmed from the fact that the socialist struggle at universities had become a target.Recently, fascist attacks at universities have been increasing. Most recently, at the Middle East Technical University (METU), a fascist attack occurred during an İlkay Akkaya concert at the Revolution Stadium, followed by the targeting of revolutionary students and the arrest of two students. The detained students were tortured, and they were targeted by fascists on social media. Some students also received death threats.
We spoke to Eda Koçak from the Commune and a student from METU (Middle East Technical University) about the attacks that have taken place at universities. We cannot reveal the name of the METU student, who stated that they are still receiving threats, for security reasons.
<'THEY USED THE FLAG FOR PROVOCATION AT METU'EF, who was present at METU during the attacks and witnessed the events, said the following regarding what happened: “The claim that the flag was attacked is absolutely false. On the contrary, the group that came to provoke wanted to use the flag to create a media image. For days, they had been trying to build propaganda from the areas. From the moment Ilkay Akkaya took the stage, a group, half of whom were not from METU, started booing incessantly under the large flag.”
As the seventh song approached, our friends, unable to tolerate the insults and booing any longer, intervened. When the intervention began, the group suddenly hid behind the Turkish flag, and continued to circulate the footage in this manner in the following days. It was entirely a tactic used by the ultranationalist groups on the opposing side to exploit the numerically superior ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University) students. They had tried to do the same thing last year when Nur Sürer came, but failed.
On the second day of the festival, they continued to behave in the same way, waving Göktürk flags and making the Grey Wolf sign, advancing towards our friends from UGT, laughing and insulting us, and physically assaulting our friends who argued with them. When the security forces tried to remove them from the area, they would leave for a while, then
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