Because of his Racist Speech, a Protest Against the Head of the Zefer Party Umit Ozdag in a Turkish University

The protest against the head of the Victory Party Umit Ozdag, who recently made the attack on refugees and illegal immigrants, took place at a university committee he attended in Ankara. While a group of university students reacted to Özdag, private security guards took out the demonstrators.

During the protest, the students shouted “Shoulder to shoulder against fascism. After the protest, the police and guards intervened with the university students.

The student activism, which made the protest, made a statement on his official social media account, As undergraduates at Bilkent University, we have protested against the racism and hostility against refugees that Özdag has been doing systematically for a while, with the slogans ‘shoulder by shoulder against fascism’. ! “We will not allow racism in universities”.

Umit Ozdag has sparked a lot of controversy because of his racist and hostile statements to asylum seekers residing in Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced the racist discourses of some opposition parties, stressing the importance of “voluntary return.“