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University staff and students, along with journalists, civil servants and members of the judiciary have been targets of Erdoğan’s relentless smothering of opposition. While many have been jailed, many others have charges hanging over them, have been suspended or dismissed from their jobs and had their passports seized.  \nAn initial focus of Erdoğan’s ire against universities was the Academics for Peace, who, in 2016, organised a petition protesting the persecution of the Kurds and calling for a negotiated just peace. Similarly, international organisations in support of academic freedom and workers’ rights – including Scholars at Risk (SAR) and Education International (EI)  \n– debated whether an appropriate course of action would be to boycott interactions with all Turkish universities, or focus specifically on those doing the Government’s bidding, including by seeking to silence staff and students with tactics such as making students spy on their lecturers. At one stage, deans were dismissed across the country, and university senior professional officers have also been removed. The dilemma was would a boycott, stopping collaboration on research and publishing, or excluding participation in conferences have the unintended consequence of further isolating our Turkish colleagues.  \nTurkish academics urged international supporters to be very public about why they were boycotting collaboration – and why particular Turkish universities were targeted. This has meant clamouring to be heard in the crowded higher  \neducation space, alongside the even more crowded mainstream and social media spaces. Calling on our own governments to act is subsumed amongst competing priorities and cowardice. And, of course, other governments and universities do not have clean hands. In Australia, university staff may not be rounded up, detained and dismissed for signing a protest letter, but we have seen our governments behave similarly to the Turkish Government in blatantly interfering in the allocation of government funded research grants.  \nScholars at Risk  \nTurkey’s Academics for Peace were awarded the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Courage to Think Award in 2018 ‘for their extraordinary efforts in building academic solidarity and in promoting the principles of academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and the peaceful exchange of ideas’. ([https://www](https://www). [scholarsatrisk.org](scholarsatrisk.org) )  \nSAR continues to protest against the ongoing attackson university workers and students and has also supported academics fleeing Turkey to find safe havens in other universities around the world. SAR was established for exactly such a purpose, and over the past two decades, the SAR network has relocated many persecuted academics across the world. For its program to work, the cooperation of university senior management is needed to put the principles of academic freedom into concrete action. Seven Australian universities and the NTEU are SAR affiliates.  \nRahil Dawood was the recipient of SAR’s Courage to Think Award for 2020. Dr Dawood, an Associate Professor  \n26 Precarious work and funding make academic freedom precarious Jeannie Rea vol. 63, no. 1, 2021  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nin the Human Science Institute of Xinjiang University, and founder of the Minorities Folklore Research Centre in Xinjiang University, was recognised for her work, alongside that of other academics and students of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, who continue to struggle for academic freedom and freedom of opinion, expression, belief, association, and movement. SAR reported that in December ","cbCaikSJYoKe1fNd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikSJYoKe1fNd","pdf",98641,"English","# Precarious work and funding and academic freedom\n## Turkey’s university crackdown\n## Scholars at Risk and international solidarity\n## Academic freedom as a human rights issue","[{\"question\":\"What triggers the discussion about academic freedom becoming precarious in the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article links precarious work and funding pressures to actions against academic staff and students, including arrests, detentions, dismissals, and seized passports connected to university leadership protests.\"},{\"question\":\"How do international groups like Scholars at Risk respond?\",\"answer\":\"Scholars at Risk documents attacks, supports fleeing academics by relocating them to safer universities, and emphasizes that university senior management cooperation is needed to translate academic freedom principles into action.\"},{\"question\":\"What dilemma does the article raise regarding boycotting Turkish universities?\",\"answer\":\"It questions whether boycotting collaboration and excluding conference participation would unintentionally isolate Turkish colleagues further, despite the intent to pressure and protect academic freedom.\"}]","Precarious work and funding make academic freedom precarious | PDF",1792080349,13]