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  As a Turkish student currently studying in Sweden, it is deeply concerning and unjust for a fellow student's admission to be revoked due to the professor's views on Turkey's stance towards Sweden's NATO bid. I believe this type of discrimination and retaliation based on political beliefs is a violation of academic freedom and undermines the principles of a fair and inclusive educational environment. 
  This is not only unfair to the individual student but also detrimental to the diversity of thought and dialogue that is crucial for fostering critical thinking and progress in any field of study. I can even say I started to experience this type of pressure from my peers during our conversations about this hot topic. As an individual, I feel invisible because I am always seen as part of a group and I have to spend my energy trying to correct others' misunderstandings, legitimizing my right to exist in academia and either approving or disproving their ideas which I personally want that to have no part in my daily or professional life.
  This student had to go through a similar thing and was rejected just for a political issue between two countries. I have Russian friends in my cohort, and despite they do not support anything about the war, they have to go through similar and sometimes worse treatment once professors talk about the conflict. Not in our department but I heard some of them cannot even get visas to study. This is not what academia should be about, and it is disheartening to see it becoming increasingly politicized.
context: Its like the psychology student had something to do with Turkey's stance on Sweden's NATO thing. >
  
  Its like the psychology professor had something to do with Turkey's stance on Sweden's NATO thing. >
  
  After reading the article, it seems she handled this incident with grace. She is basically untouchable now in that institution. I am scratching my head at the Prof’s response. What kind of faculty are they keeping around there? This is a very poor showing for the entire department. >
  
  There is something even worse: that guy so called a scientist is an editor in a scientific journal which has a pretty high impact factor. How could that biased individual make an objective decision about which paper to accept or reject? >
  
  yes great point. He’s basically saying ‘I was trained to be a professional scientist but you know what, fuck rationality here’s 15 year old me’.
  And I would like to add, the reason he did this is because he’s probably done it before and gotten away with it. >
  
  Right on! I emailed to the chief-editors of the journal and am curious about their response. You know, he can grab a guitar and sing “throw the Turk down the well, so my country can be free” in a bar like Borat, but you expect a different behavior from an educated man. I got that Erasmus grant twice. The application process is stressful. You need to have a good GPA, get a good language score, and go through an interview in your home institution. I had a lot of fear-type prejudice before my first trip to Europe, and that trip changed not only my thoughts, but also changed me after I gained some confidence. She faced with racism even before her journey to Europe. That is traumatic and I feel so sorry for her. >
  
  Have you ever read The Onion?  This is weak sauce. >
  
  Petty revenge >
  
  Turkey's being petty with the NATO accession so fight fire with fire. >
  
  Sorry, but how is one random student being rejected in a cultural exchange program going to prove any point?
  I support Sweden and Finland joining NATO, and this is just a petty revenge from a single academic showing remarkable lack of judgment. Meanwhile Turkey's leadership is not just being petty, they're being outright scumbags, trying to extract political capital from the whole issue, showing disregard for what's actually at stake (consolidating security on Europe and NATO's borders against potential Russian or Russian-backed aggression), trying to blackmail the Western countries in conceding to their unreasonable demands. And I suspect they don't even care about obtaining anything specific, not too much, it's just to show they can coerce rich, developed countries to dance to their music, jumping when they say "jump", to prove they actually matter on the international chess board... A pure display of force (or at least, an attempt at that).
  It will be resolved by the usual diplomatic channels, something along the lines of Erdogan's drone factory entering into a multi-billion contract with Swedish and Finnish defense ministries or something like that, that could be just enough to make some government people consider the firmness of their purpose against a huge personal profit. >
  
  Pretty lame and petty.
  What does a student have to do with any of this.
  If anything this only harms the goal, and makes Turks more hostile towards Sweden. >
  
  The psychology professor is punishing an innocent victim of his own biases. Erdogan is really going to get hurt. >
  
  It will even increase the strength of Erdogan’s arguments against the west. He will use it in the politics to gain votes. >
  
  Slightly biased article again Sweden? Sweden support terrorist etc. Is the article written by Erdogan? >
  
  You guys are not ready for that conversation yet. >
  
  What does that mean? It's hard to take a article seriously that is obv so biased.
  Erdogan wants to put journalist in prison for insulting him. But Sweden should let Turkey keep on as usual? >
  
  The article is by the Turkish state news agency. Don’t believe a word of it. >
  
  Here you go, a Swedish article.
  Instead of jumping to conclusions and spouting your verbal diarrhoea, you should do some research first.
  Even if it were a Turkish agency, both the university and professor are named, making the news easily verifiable. I swear, people like you have no capacity for critical thinking. >
  
  Which Turkish propaganda ministry do you fork for? >
  
  Get a life >
  
  Seems counter-productive. You want the intellectuals to counter the behavior of Far Right extremists like the leaders of Turkey.
  You can't expect them to fix things if you sabotage their lives. >
  
  fuck turkey >
  
  Yes lets punish some girl. Redditor are so cringe🤢 >
  
  That's got to be racist >
  
  It's political, dumb fuck. >
  
  She wasn't a supporter of Erdogan, nor his policies. There is no ground for political disagreement here. This is gross academic misconduct at best and very likely racism against Turkish people disguised under a political excuse. >
  
  
  racism against Turkish people
  
  Racism isn't the word you want. Discrimination works here, but racism does not. >
  
  Quick! Someone tell the Turks they aren't a race anymore!