Turkish police raided on anti-war students on March 26 and detained a total of 17 students from Boğaziçi University after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s order.
On March 19, a group of students in Boğaziçi University in İstanbul distributed Turkish delights as a support for the AKP government's Afrin operation. Meanwhile, other students protested them saying wars should not be celebrated.
Erdoğan said Saturday that "communist, traitor youth" tried to mess up a student stand opened by "religious, nationalist, local youth" at the public Boğazici University. Erdoğan announced an investigation and said "we won't give these terrorist youth the right to study at these universities."
Police on March 25 were holding seven students from the university after Erdoğan accused them of behaving like “terrorists” for staging a protest opposing Turkey’s military campaign in Syria.
