Students Occupy Buildings at Universities in Turkey

Deniz Gezmiş during the Istanbul University Occupation, 11 June 1968.

Beginning on June 10th, 1968, students occupied the faculty offices of Language-History-Geography at the University of Ankara.  By June 12th, the Faculty of Law at Instabul University had been occupied. Altogether some 20,000 students went on strike nationwide, including universities in Erzurum and Izmir. The students at the faculty of philosophy, history and geography in Ankara occupied the faculty buildings and denied professors access. The students demanded the dean’s resignation.

Sources:

A Chronology of the Global 1968 Protest, by Rolf Werenskjold, Volda University College [Norway] Report Number 13, (2010).

Turkey's 68, by Demet Lüküslü, Verso Blog, 15 May 2018