Regarding the dismissal of professors and research assistants of the theatre department of the Ankara University ACAR wrote to the Turkish government: “We, representing the international theatre community in many countries, express our deep concern about these dismissals of colleagues – professors as well as all the many Turkish artists and intellectuals being suspected and threatened within the past months.
We urgently ask your government to reconsider this decision.”
Letter to Turkish Government

update: Read also the statement of the Turkish section of the  International Association of Theatre Critics and from the Executive Committee of the International Federation for Theatre Research