Specialist in Turkey and co-author with Pierre-Yves Hénin of the book
Le National-Capitalisme authoritaire, une menace pour la democratie
(to be published in March 2021 by Éditions Bleu around), the political scientist Ahmet Insel returns for
Le Figaro
on the reasons that push the Turkish power to muzzle the universities.
LE FIGARO.
- Why is Recep Tayyip Erdogan so bitter against universities?
Ahmet INSEL.
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I see two main reasons.
It is first of all the illustration of a policy to strengthen its control over all institutions.
Since the abortive putsch of 2016, the Turkish president has put in place an authoritarian system that aims to concentrate all decisions in his hands.
He is at the same time the head of the government, of the armies, of the majority party.
It has the power to govern the executive, the legislature and indirectly the judiciary.
Added to this is the locking of the press (which involves the closure of newspapers and the takeover of major media by men
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