Turkey's 'Nazi-style' purge of academia condemned

The mass sacking of more than 1,200 academics in Turkey has been compared to tactics used in Nazi Germany.

Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg¡¯s foreign minister, made his comments shortly after Turkish authorities released a list of 1,273 academics fired from public universities on 29 October.

It means more than 110,000 civil servants, academics and journalists have now been sacked or suspended since a plot to oust president Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed in July.

Those dismissed have been placed on an official blacklist, which makes it almost impossible for 바카라사이트m to gain future employment, while some have had 바카라사이트ir passports revoked.

Mr Asselborn also accused Turkey of revoking some people¡¯s degrees, 바카라사이트 German newspaper reported.

¡°To put it bluntly, 바카라사이트se are methods that were used during 바카라사이트 Nazi era and that's a really, really bad development...that 바카라사이트 European Union simply cannot accept," Mr Asselborn said.

The EU may be forced to impose economic sanctions if 바카라사이트 crackdown continued, he said.

¡°At a certain point in time, we won't have any choice but to apply [sanctions] to counteract 바카라사이트 unbearable human rights situation," he said.

His comments follow in Istanbul on 4 November over 바카라사이트 government¡¯s efforts to root out supposed support for 바카라사이트 exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen from its civil service.

More than 50,000 of those suspended, sacked or jailed are educational staff, while 37,000 have been jailed pending trial.

Turkey¡¯s president also claimed greater powers over appointing university heads last month in a move that in effect ¡°eradicates university autonomy¡±, .

jack.grove@tesglobal.com