Save Mathematical Summer School

This site was created with the aim of gathering extra support for the letter to His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey, sent to the Prime Minister's office by e-mail on 3 August 2007 (and then by fax and airmail). Since then, this petition has achieved its immediate aim and its further signing is temporally paused.

The illegally closed School has been reopened -- at least for now-- on 10 August 2007.

Warmest thanks to everyone who fought for the School!

However, Professor Ali Nesin still faces prosecution. Indeed, on 7th August Professor Nesin was summoneded to the prosecutor's office for interogation. The key charge was "education without permission". The prosecutor told Professor Nesin's lawyer that he will open a trial against him in few days under Article TCK 263 of Turkish Criminal Code:

Persons who open or run illegal educational institutions can be jailed from 3 months to 1 year.

The actions of the prosecutor appear to be in contradiction with the 27th article of the Turkish Constitution which guarantees the freedom to teach and learn arts and sciences:

Article 27 Freedom of Science and Arts
(1) Everyone has the right to study and teach freely, explain, and disseminate science and arts and to carry out research in these fields.

Professor Nesin has written to me that he is prepared to stand the trial on constitutional grounds in order to create a legal precedent. The issue now is freedom of Mathematics itself.

Regarding the situation around the school Professor Nesin posted a comment here updating the current situation. See the end of this post for more information about the incident, links etc.

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Petition to Prime Minister of Turkey, as sent on 3 August 2007:

His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey
Basbakanlik
Bakanliklar
Ankara

3 August 2007

Your Excellency,

We learn with surprise and alarm, that the Mathematical Summer School, organised by Professor Ali Nesin for undergraduate students from Turkish universities, has been closed by the local authorities. We learned that one of the reasons invoked is "education without permission".

We are surprised that a mathematician of Professor Ali Nesin’s stature is not allowed to teach mathematics without asking, on every occasion, for specific permission from officials. This appears to be inconsistent with the fact that the Summer Schools, which Professor Ali Nesin organises every year are financially supported by TUBITAK, the highest research institution of your country and also by the Turkish Mathematical Society and several respected Turkish universities.

We would like to think that the closing of the Mathematical Summer School was an accident that will be corrected soon, and other minor bureaucratic problems resolved in time. We find it difficult to understand the barriers that are erected in front of Professor Ali Nesin, who has made selfless efforts in the education of the young people of Turkey. Indeed, over the last few years, some of us have had the chance to work with several very talented young Turkish doctoral students who have either been Professor Ali Nesin's students and/or participated in his annual Summer Schools.

Your Excellency,

in view of the exceptional educational value of Professor Ali Nesin's institution - not only for Turkish mathematics, but for mathematics internationally - we would appreciate your taking the resolution of the incident under your personal control.

Yours sincerely

Professor Alexandre Borovik, on behalf of co-signatories:

Professor Tuna Altinel, University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Professor John Baldwin, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Professor Luc Belair, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Professor Zoe Chatzidakis, University Paris 7, France
Professor Gregory Cherlin, Rutgers University, USA
Professor Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Angus Macintyre FRS, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Mike Prest, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Frank Wagner, University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Professor Alex Wilkie FRS, Oxford University, UK
Professor Carol Wood, Wesleyan University, USA
Professor Boris Zilber, Oxford University, UK

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After the petition has been sent on 3 August 2007, it has been also supported by the following men and women from all around the world.

Dr Hossein Andikfar, University of Toledo, USA
Dr John Armstrong, Tulane University, USA
Professor Matthias Aschenbrenner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Caner Aslan, Artist, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr Salih Azgin, McMaster University, Canada
Dr Aydan Balamir, METU, Turkey
Professor Hyman Bass, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Michael Benedikt, Oxford University, UK
Dr Ayse Berkman, METU, Turkey
Dr Ozlem Beyarslan, University Paris 7, France
Professor Andreas Blass, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Zafer Bozkus, METU, Turkey
Serkan Cabi, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, USA
Dr Bogachan Celen, Columbia University, USA
Professor Igor Dolgachev, University of Michigan, USA
William Ella, University of Mary Washington, USA
Professor José M Figueroa-O'Farrill, University of Edinburgh, UK
Joseph D. Flenner, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr Dmitriy Fon-Der-Flaass, Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
Professor Brayton Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Professor Robert L. Griess, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Ugur Gul, Sabanci University, Turkey
Professor İsmail Ş. Güloğlu, Doğuş Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey
Professor Leo A Harrington, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Israel
Dr Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Professor Timur Karacay, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
Dr Jonathan Kirby, Oxford University, UK
Dr Inna Korchagina, University of Warwick, UK
Professor Jan Krajicek, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Professor Mahmut Kuzucuoglu, METU, Turkey
Dr Mathieu Langer, Université Paris-Sud XI, France
YankI Lekili, MIT, USA
Dr Anna Lenzhen, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Dugald Macpherson, University of Leeds, UK
Victor Maltcev, St Andrews University, UK
Professor Dave Marker, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr Steve Mayer, Open University, UK
Alice Medvedev, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Richard Mills, Oregon State University, USA
Dr Amir Niknejad, East Tennessee State University, USA
Gonenc Onay, University Paris VII, France
Dr Kurtulus Ozcetin, Canada
Dr David Pierce, METU, Turkey
Professor Anand Pillay, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Haluk Oral, Bogazici University, Turkey
Abhijnan Rej, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
Nitin Rughoonauth, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Republic of South Africa
Seb Schmoller, Association for Learning Technology, UK
Professor Ronald Solomon, The Ohio State University, USA
Professor Stephen D. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Professor Patrick Speissegger, McMaster University, Canada
Thomas Stephens, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Professor Ralph Stohr, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Simon Thomas, Rutgers University, USA
Dr Marcus Tressl, University of Manchester, UK
Professor John Kenneth Truss, University of Leeds, UK
Yasemin Unal, Retired F&B manager Hilton-Ankara Hotel, Turkey
Professor A. S. Ustunel, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications, Paris, France
Professor Andrés Villaveces, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Professor Arthur G. Wasserman, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Yi Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China
Bora Akçay, Dipl. Architect, Turkey
Mehmet Haluk Sengun, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Ryan Kinser, University of Michigan, USA
Hernando Tellez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Professor K. Ilhan Ikeda, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Stephanie Jakus, University of Michigan, USA
Engin Ozkan, METU, Turkey
Professor Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Professor Nesrin Seyhan, Gazi University, Turkey
Dr Sukru Yalcinkaya, Turkey
Halil Gamsizkan, METU, Turkey
Henning Ulfarsson, Brown University, USA
Pierre Larochelle, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Zeynep Onur, Girne American University, Turkey
D. Rana Nergis Ogut, METU,Turkey
Bülent Tosun, METU, Turkey
Dr Banu Uzun, Isik University, Turkey
Professor Semih Bilgen, METU, Turkey
Dr Özgür Kişisel, METU, Turkey
Hakan GÜNTÜRKÜN, METU, Turkey
Art Director, Rodin Alper Bingol, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Professor Mehmet Zulfu Asik, METU, Turkey
Ozer Ozturk, METU, Turkey
Dr Deniz Unal, Cukurova University, Turkey
Mehmet Umut Isik, University of Pennsylvania, USA
H. Can Aran, University of Twente, Netherlands
Professor Betul Tanbay, Bogazici University, Turkey
A. Muhammed Uludag, GSU, Istanbul, Turkey
Professor Dogan Dönmez, Cukurova University, Turkey
Professor Yusuf ÜNLÜ, Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, Turkey
Sefa Feza Arslan, METU, Turkey
Sezen Sekmen, METU, Turkey
Austin Shapiro, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Gulsen Onengut, Cukurova University, Adana,Turkey
Apostolos Beligiannis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Professor William Lionheart, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Arzu Yorgancıoğlu, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
Professor David E. Booth, Kent State University, USA
Craig Laughton, Manchester University, UK
Dr Robert Bruce Findler, University of Chicago, USA
Dr Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
Seyfi Turkelli, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Juan Diego Caycedo, Oxford University, UK
Professor Haldun M. Ozaktas, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Professor Murat Lekili, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
Dr Esra Mungan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Olivier Roche, University of freiburg, Germany
Professor Cihan Saclioglu, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Proessor Janos Simon, University of Chicago, USA
Dr Kivanc Inelmen, Bogazici University, Turkey
Dr Talia Fernos, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Demirhan Tunc, University of Notre Dame, USA
Semin Ayhan, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
Ayse Mutlu Derya, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Dr Onur Yavuz, METU, Turkey
Professor Hilmi Demiray, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ahmet Munir Piroglu, METU, Turkey
Professor Gurol Irzik, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Professor Sami Gülgöz, Koç University, Turkey
Dr Arkadas Ozakin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
M.Taylan Sengul, Indiana University
Azadeh Neman, Universite Lyon 1, France
Professor Bradd Hart, McMaster University, Canada
Professor Sadettin Erdem, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Emre Kose, Bogazici University, Turkey
Vural Cam, METU, Turkey
Dr Kivanc Inelmen, Bogazici University, Turkey
Professor Mustafa Korkmaz, METU, Turkey
Dr Mine Gol-Guven, Bogazici University, Turkey
Dr Yesem Kurt, Randolph College, USA
Professor Haldun M. Ozaktas, Bilkent University, Turkey
Dr Serpil Özaloðlu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Dr Jeremy Rouse, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Daniela Banu, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Professor Ali Riza KANDİLOĞLU, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
Hayriye Çelik, METU, Turkey
Ali Altug, Princeton University, USA
Dr Selcuk Demir, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Pinar Ugurlu, METU, Turkey
Dr Franz Lichtenberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler
University, Linz, Austria
Ozlem Cavusoglu, Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey
Professor Ali Alpar, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ergun Yalcin, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Professor Asli Tolun, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Yildiray Ozan, METU, Turkey
Professor Faruk Gungor, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Kivanc Ersoy, METU, Turkey
Ugur Madran, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
Frank Thorne, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Professor Joel Robbin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Christine Charretton, Institut Camille Jordan, Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France
Professor Arif MARDIN, TELECOM-INT, Evry, France
Zeynep Özkurt , Çukurova University, Adana, Türkiye
Professor Zafer Nurlu, METU, Turkey
Professor Kuban Altinel, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Arsin ARSIK, Bogazici University, Turkey
Professor Cigdem Altay (retired), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Kristen Ashford, Jefferson High School, San Francisco, USA
Kivilcim Kilic, Austin College, USA
Unal Ufuktepe, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
John Bergdall, University of Minnesota, USA
Zeynep Gocer, Chem. Eng., Istanbul, Turkey
Burcin Erocal, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Dr Hasan A. Çelik, Professor Emeritus, California State Polytechnical University, USA
Professor Yusuf Yagci, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Professor Nevzat G. Gencer, METU, Turkey
Mustafa Gokhan Benli, Texas A&M University, USA
Tom LaGatta, University of Arizona, USA
Maksim Maydanskiy, MIT, USA
Javier Moreno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Dr Aybek Korugan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Dr Burak Guclu, Bogazici University, Turkey, and Syracuse University, USA
Dr Tudor Jebelean, University of Linz, Austria
Dr Jean Bérard, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France
Professor Luis-Jaime Corredor, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Professeur Itaï BEN YAACOV, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Dr Alexey Muranov, Université Lyon 1, France
Janak Ramakrishnan, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame, USA
Tolga Etgü, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Burak Ozbagci, Koc University, Istanbul
Dr Seçil Gergün, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey
Brandi Rollins, University of Mary Washington, USA
Mine Caglar, Koc University, Turkey
Dr Gülay Kaya, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Alan Stapledon, The Univeristy of Michigan, USA
Dr Pinar Mete, Balikesir University, Turkey
Ozgur Martin, Bowling Green State University, USA
Associate Professor Ebru Diriker, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Benjamin Webster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Professor Turgut Onder, METU, Turkey
Dr Efe Yazgan, Texas Tech University, USA
Hasan Cem Demetçi, İstanbul, Turkey
Armel Nicolas, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Hakan Özpalamutçu, Software Engineer, Adana, Turkey
Huang Nguyen, University of Florida, USA
Dogu Kaya, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr. Gonca Ayik, Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, Turkey
Dr Gulden Berkman, METU, Ankara, Turkey
Professor Henning Stichtenoth, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, and Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professor David Savitt, University of Arizona, USA; Deputy Director, Canada/USA Mathcamp
Dr Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Sergey Finashin, METU, Turkey
Dr Fred Thulin, Director, Mathematical Sciences Learning Center, University of Illinois at
Chicago, USA
Tuba Tümlü, Anadolu University, Turkey
Dr. Hayrullah Ayik, Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, Turkey
Professor Alev Topuzoglu, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Ozgur Gurcan. University of California, San Diego, USA
Dr Daniela Amato, Oxford University, UK
Dr Hans Cuypers, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
Dr Tim Burness, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Brian Conrad, University of Michigan, USA
Finn Faye Knudsen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Ayhan Aksoy, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
Katherine Stange, Brown University, USA
Sefika OZKAL, Engineer, ASELSAN, Turkey
Daniel Plaumann, University of Konstanz, Germany
Johanna Mangahas, University of Michigan, USA
Joseph Grant, University of Bristol, UK
Jose Gonzalez, University of Michigan, USA
Cameron Hill, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Radu Grigore, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jyun-Ao Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. Timothy Mellor, University of Regensburg, Germany
Dr Robert Milson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dr Richard Elwes, Leeds, UK
Dr Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University, USA
Dr Selim Eskiizmirliler, University Denis Diderot (Paris 7), France
Professor Daniel M Burns, Jr, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Andrei Zelevinsky, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
James Kister, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Yair Glasner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr Attila Maroti, University of Southern California, USA
Dr Markus Schweighofer, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Dr Kumru Toktamis, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Stefano Cardanobile, University of Ulm, Germany
Hadi Zare, University of Manchester, UK
William Merry, Cambridge University, UK
Ali İlik, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
Alex Romanovsky, Superscape Russia LTD, Moscow, Russia
Orr Shalit, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Hamid Nazerzadeh, Stanford University, USA
Parashar Dave, Software Engineer, L&T Infotech, India
Dave Anderson, University of Michigan, USA
Simon Tyler, University of Western Australia, Australia
Ali İlik, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
Cagatay Kutluhan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
David Hansen, Brown University, USA
Steven T. Flammia, University of New Mexico, USA
Alexey Talambutsa, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Ekin Ozman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Anand D. Sarwate, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr Corneliu Hoffman, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Gergely Harcos, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
Professor Peter Sin, University of Florida, UK
Professor Robert Boltje, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Dr Jayce R. Getz, Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Professor Stephen Doty, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Dr Wilfried Meidl, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Professer Peter Webb, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr Alexey Gorinov, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
Professor Frederick Goodman, University of Iowa, USA
Dr Shamgar Gurevich, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor James R. Lee, University of Washington, USA
Dr Andrew Mathas, University of Sydney, Australia
Professor George Glauberman, University of Chicago, USA
Dr Julian Gilbey, Watford Grammar School for Girls, UK,
Professor Emeritus Robert T Schumacher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Professor James Cummings, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Professor Emeritus Jack Towber, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
Dr Joseph Kiniry, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Dr Ali Sinan Sertöz, Bilkent Üniversitesi, Turkey
Professor François Loeser,CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Dr Sonmez Sahutoglu, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Sevket Gunter, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Adrian Dobson, Manchester University , UK
Dr Elena Machkasova, University of Minnesota in Morris, Morris, MN, USA
Dr Mert Caglar, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey
Dr Richard F. Booth, Bolton School, UK
Dr Christopher Moore, University of New Mexico, USA
Dr Wilfried Meidl, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Arne Winterhof, RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz, Austria
Professor David Fisher, Indiana University, USA
Professor Oleg Belegradek, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Professor Emeritus Paul Eklof, University of California, Irvine, USA
Professor David J. Benson, University of Aberdeen, UK
Professor Matt Foreman, University of California, Irvine, USA
Professor Max Dickmann, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu CNRS - Universites Paris 6 and Paris 7, France
Professor David Evans, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Professor Markus Linckelmann, University of Aberdeen, UK
Professor Burkhard Kuelshammer, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Professor Patrick Hayden, McGill University, Canada
Professor Niels Schwartz, University of Passau, Germany
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Neil Lyall, University of Georgia, USA
Dr Nadia Mazza, University of Aberdeen, UK
Professor Ahmet Kocaman, Ufuk University, Turkey
Professor Nigel Boston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Christopher Lance, Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Richard Lyons, Rutgers University, USA
Professor Andrew Woldar, Villanova University, USA
Professor Stephen M. Gagola, Jr., Kent State Universiy, Ohio, USA
Professor Jay M. Jahangiri, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
Professor Amir H. Assadi, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Professor William Gasarch, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Professor Bernahrd Muhlherr, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Professor Gerhard Hiss, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Professor Sijue Wu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Professor Bertrand Rémy, Université Lyon 1, France
Professor Jan Saxl, Cambridge University, UK
Dr Peter M. Neumann, The Queen's College, Oxford University, UK
Professor Akos Seress, The Ohio State University, USA
Professor Hendrik Van Maldeghem, Ghent University, Belgium
Professor Eloisa Detomi, University of Padova, Italy
Profesosor Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Professor Gerhard Frey, Institute for Experimental Mathematics,
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professor Eduard Emelyanov, METU,Turkey
Professor Jonathan I. Hall, Michigan State University, USA
Professor Barbara Baumeister, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Professor Donna M. Testerman, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Marie-Francoise Roy, Institut de Recherche Mathematique de Rennes, France
Professor Philipp Rothmaller, The City University of New York, USA
Professor Peter Cameron, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Professor Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Professor Matthew Valeriote, McMaster University, Canada
Professor Gernot Stroth, Halle University, Germany
Professor Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Wiliam Kantor, University of Oregon, USA
Professor Michael Aschbacher, Caltech, USA
Professor John Thompson, University of Florida, USA, and Cambridge University, UK
Professor Efim Zelmanov, University of California San-Diego, USA
Professor Terence Tao, University of California Los Angeles, USA

This break marks the date of 14 August 2007 , when the appeal has changed from "save mathematical village" to "support Professor Ali Nesin".
Jonathan Halabi, Lehman College, New York City, USA
Dr Tom Leinster, University of Glasgow, UK
Oren Kolman, Université de Caen, France
Dr Anton Setzer, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Dr Roy Dyckhoff, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Professor Kit Fine, Dept of Philosophy, New York University, USA
Dr Mirna Dzamonja, University of East Anglia, UK
Dr Alessio Lomuscio, Dept of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Bahadir Cor, METU, Turkey
Professor Carolyn Dean, University of Michigan, USA
James Cranch, University of Sheffield, UK
Professor Emeritus Manley Perkel, Wright State University, USA
Professor Raphael Rouquier, University of Oxford, UK
Luke Kelly, University of Birmingham, UK
CHAN Ho Fai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham, UK
Ben Fairbairn, Univeristy of Birmingham, UK
Dr Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds, UK
Patrick Alan Hutchinson, King's College London, UK
Dr Rainer Typke, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
Dr Agatha C. Walczak-Typke, Kurt Goedel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Andrea Schalk, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Hykel Hosni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Dr Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK
Professor Michael Rathjen, University of Leeds, UK
Dr Lucas Dixon, University of Edinburgh, UK
John Alexander Cruz Morales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia
Harry Anthony Lewis, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dr William Stirton, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Jeffrey Burdges, University of Machester, UK
Dr Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Heike Mildenberger, University of Vienna, Austria
Professor Natasha Dobrinen, University of Denver, USA
Harry Lesser, Centre for Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Carlo Toffalori, University of Camerino, Italy
Professor Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Dr R. Inanc Baykur, Columbia University, USA
Dr Neil Leslie, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Noam Greenberg, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Professor Stefano Baratella, Universita` di Trento, Italy
Professor Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford, UK
Paolo Lipparini, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Professor Enrico Valdinoci, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Francesco Fidaleo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Professor Stefano Trapani, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Professor Francesco de Blasi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Vita Leonessa, University of Basilicata, Italy
Dr Maria Grazia Russo, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Dr Rinauro Silvana, Università della Basilicata, Italy

Warmest thanks to everyone who fought for the School!

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Some background information can be found in Alexandre Borovik's blog:

Some Turkish sources:

An article (in Turkish) in Radikal.
Also, an article in Radikal about this petition.
One more article in Radikal.
An article by L.Doğan Tılıç in Birgün.
Placing the Mathematical Village under seal (in English)

Some responses in Blogosphere:

Save Mathematical Summer School

Friday, 3 August 2007

Letter to His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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