Boğaziçi University security staff break students' 'resistance tent' during intervention

Boğaziçi University's security personnel on Jan. 28 broke one of the tents that students were trying to set up in front of the rector's building in protest of the appointment of Melih Bulu as the new rector, who has close ties with President Erdoğan's ruling AKP. This incident was the first intervention of the security personnel against students on the campus premises.

Private security personnel employed at Istanbul's Boğaziçi University on Jan. 28 broke the poles of a tent that students were trying to set up in front of the rector's building in protest of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's appointment of Melih Bulu as the new rector.

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