Question 3678 — higher education

Summary

Mr. Gabriel Amard draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, to the fact that during the fifth trial of Ms. Pinar Selek in Istanbul in June 2024, the University of Côte d'Azur was indicted by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Turkey. Indeed, the Ministry of the Interior argued that, thanks to a conference organized by the CNRS and the Institute of research for development, the University of Côté d'Azur participated in terrorist activities. These fallacious accusations are very serious and aimed to discredit the French university, its academic freedom and its teacher-researchers in particular Ms. Pinar Selek, sociologist, persecuted by the Turkish regime for 25 years because of her political and academic commitments. Ms. Selek, through her work on communities Kurds and Armenians in Turkey, on women, LGBTQIA+ people, on the toxicity of masculine imaginations propagated by compulsory Turkish military service, shows the reality of a regime which wishes to hide it at all costs; it is for these reasons that she has been judicially harassed by the Turkish regime for more than 25 years. Through these accusations, academic freedom - dear to France, cardinal for the functioning of French universities and public research - is being called into question. Such threats made by a foreign power should not disrupt research work in the country. The MP wishes to know how the Minister considers these accusations and what measures she intends to take to support the University of Côte d'Azur, its researchers and beyond, the French researchers attacked around the world because of their work, at the forefront of which Ms. Pinar Selek. Aussi, he was able to hear, from various sources, that Turkish diplomacy would have sought to prevent the University of Nice Côte d'Azur from participating in the third United Nations Conference on the Ocean (UNOC 25) which is to be held in Nice in June 2025. Once again, this unacceptable pressure put on France by Turkey, targeting the University of Nice Côte d'Azur, would be motivated by the fact that Pinar Selek works at this university. He therefore asks him to confirm the participation of the University of Nice Côte d'Azur in this international conference.

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