Boğaziçi University students walked to support the students struggling in Greece

Boğaziçi University students, who continued their fight against the "trustee rector", marched in the campus to support the students who are fighting against the establishment of a police force in Greece.

Here’s the statement of Boğaziçi University students:

“Today is Wednesday, January 27th. We are in the fourth week of our protests against the state appointed rector in Boğaziçi. We know that our resistance isn’t constrained to this campus, this city, this country. Those who ban demonstrations in our district, arrest our friends, pile up their police armies in our neighborhood don’t have the power to stop those who resist oppression around the world.

Today we salute our comrades in Greece who lit the fire of resistance by declaring that they don’t want police in their campuses. In turn we declare that we stand in solidarity with them and that our resistance is the same. Government of Greece limited entrances into campuses by using coronavirus as an excuse. They say that people can’t enter the universities. That students can’t enter. But police can! They aim to pass a special law to allow police squads to be permanently stationed in campuses around Greece. Our comrades over there rejected this and their protests are expanding from the streets of Athens to other cities.

Bogazici campus too is occupied by police both in uniform and undercover. Surroundings of our school, our neighborhood are under blockade by armored cars, police panzers and barricades. We know that every day we are under surveillance in every step we take. In our food courts where prices are regularly raised for students, police get to eat for free. They keep watch at every corner in and around our campus. These blockades in Turkey and Greece show that around the world the powerful are afraid of those who stand against and resist injustices because they are aware of the power of our unity. Unlike the armies of police they pile up on our campuses, our strength come from our rightful demands. And we know that those who murdered Alexis are one of the same with those who murdered Berkin and they are the ones occupying our campuses today. We will resist until they leave with the trustee rectors. Neither in Greece nor in Turkey we won’t allow unelected state trustees and police in campuses. We will not give up on our collective resistance. No liberation in isolation, either all of us or none of us.” (EVRENSEL DAILY)