Middle East Technical University (METU) Faculty of Sciences and Literature Dean’s Office started a disciplinary investigation against students, who allegedly hung a rainbow flag on the school building during the LGBTI+ Pride March organized inside the campus on May 11th.
The Dean’s Office sent an information email to the students on the investigation. “…with the allegation that they have hung the flags that are symbols of the structure known as LGBT, also known as a ‘rainbow’, on the roof of the Department of Physics chairmanship within the spring celebrations,” the email sent to the students stated. The university’s Dean’s Offices in the Faculty of Finances and Business Administration, the Faculty of Architecture as well as the Directorate of Foreign Languages have previously started investigations against the students, who participated in the METU LGBTI+ Pride March.
07.08.2018
bianet.org