POLICE INTERVENTION
With their friends arrested, Boğaziçi University students protesting: 14 detained
* Photos: Dilek Şen
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With their two friends arrested yesterday (October 6) on the grounds that they protested Naci İnci, the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, students made a call for a protest against these arrests at the gate of the South Campus in İstanbul at 11 am today.
Police officers intervened against the students before they entered the campus, detaining at least eight students in Rumelihisarüstü. At least six others have been detained at the gate of the South Campus while they were trying to make a statement for the press.
Hundreds of police officers waited in front of the university gate. Students were chanting the slogans, "Police; sell bagels, live honorably" and "The day will come, the wheels will turn, the AKP will answer to the people". Police officers were also preventing the journalists that came to the barricades for covering the statement from fulfilling their duty.
In protest against the police blockade against the journalists who were not allowed to approach the students, students said that they would not make their statement until journalists came near them. The students inside the school were chanting the slogan, "Press here, press here."
bu da öğrencilerin çekemediğimiz açıklaması!
— dilek şen (@ddileksen) October 7, 2021
şu an "gün gelecek, devran dönecek, akp halka hesap verecek" sloganı atılıyor #boğaziçidireniyor pic.twitter.com/sP0poktkg0
What happened?
10 students were taken into custody at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul the other day (October 5) on the grounds that they joined the protests against Naci İnci, the appointed rector of the university.
Three students were released from detention after giving their statements at the police station. Held in detention at night, seven students were referred to the İstanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan yesterday after the related formalities had been completed at the police station.
Interrogated at the prosecutor's office, four students were released on probation while three were referred to judgeship to be arrested.
The İstanbul Penal Judgeship of Peace on Duty has ruled that two students shall be arrested and one shall be released on probation.
Rector İnci previously applied to the prosecutor's office against his 14 students on charges of "threat, insult, damage to property, resisting for preventing duty and violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations." (DŞ/NÖ/SD)