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  Punishing a student for a stance that her government takes is somehow "good"?
  That makes no sense at all.
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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Good.