Police detained two university students who were members of Emek Gençliği in house and dormitory raids on the morning of 4 November after they distributed leaflets outside a high school in Kocaeli on 3 November calling for National Education Minister Yusuf Tekin’s resignation. The students were taken to the Provincial Police Department. Kocaeli Emek Gençliği argued that distributing leaflets was a democratic right and described the operation as an attempt to intimidate young people. The leaflet criticized education expenses, the quality of education and safety problems in schools and called for organizing for free, scientific and democratic education. TİP university students Nevin Tekin and Nehir Dizdar, who hung a banner in Istanbul with the same resignation demand, were arrested on 25 October and released on 28 October. Four university students who protested their arrest were also detained and later released with a travel ban.
4 November 2026
Sendika.Org