In 2015, Islamic scholar Nureddin Yıldız argued that “working women paved the way for prostitution.” Associate professor Teyfur Erdoğdu told state broadcaster TRT that he regularly meets with Allah and the Prophet Muhammad in his dreams. Vural Bulut, a scholar at the Çanakkale 18 Mart University and head of its media center, called Erdoğan’s opponents “sons of bitches.” Another pro-government academic, Dr. Yavuz Örnek from Istanbul University’s Marine Sciences Faculty, claimed that technology was more advanced in the time of the Prophet Noah than it is today. Hosted by TRT, Örnek said Noah had talked to his son on a mobile phone to convince him to come aboard his ark, and that the ark itself was made of steel and resistant to waves as high as 400 meters. He added that Noah’s ark ran on nuclear power.
In April 2018, Necdet Budak, president of Aegean University in Izmir, ordered his academic staff to line up by the road to greet Erdoğan, who wanted to visit the campus. Also in 2018, Ahmet Ağırakça, president of Artuklu University in the southeastern province of Mardin, proposed that university presidents wear the turban of an Islamic sheik. In another speech, he declared himself “President Erdoğan’s representative in Mardin.”
In November 2018, Professor Ibrahim Emiroğlu, head of the research center at the 9 Eylül University in Izmir and dean of the Faculty of Aviation and Space, told a conference that menstruation was an illness that “must be treated” and recommended that 15-year-old girls be married off. He advised all women to wear the hijab, and claimed the “greatest threat [to society] is secularism.”
In addition to all that academic insanity, Erdoğan’s leadership has prompted university professors to declare that:
In April 2018, Necdet Budak, president of Aegean University in Izmir, ordered his academic staff to line up by the road to greet Erdoğan, who wanted to visit the campus. Also in 2018, Ahmet Ağırakça, president of Artuklu University in the southeastern province of Mardin, proposed that university presidents wear the turban of an Islamic sheik. In another speech, he declared himself “President Erdoğan’s representative in Mardin.”
In November 2018, Professor Ibrahim Emiroğlu, head of the research center at the 9 Eylül University in Izmir and dean of the Faculty of Aviation and Space, told a conference that menstruation was an illness that “must be treated” and recommended that 15-year-old girls be married off. He advised all women to wear the hijab, and claimed the “greatest threat [to society] is secularism.”
In addition to all that academic insanity, Erdoğan’s leadership has prompted university professors to declare that:
- “Universities are houses of prostitution as they bring female and male students together.”