Türkiye‘s international minister expressed assist Monday for a Turkish college scholar whose internship utility was rejected by a professor in Sweden who claimed he can’t host her as a result of Türkiye has been blocking Sweden’s entry into NATO.
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu shared footage on Twitter from his cellphone name with Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate scholar learning psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, saying she has displayed “a stance befitting a Turkish woman. Unfortunately, we can see that countries hailing democracy and human rights attach a political issue to a student’s future.”
Emphasizing Türkiye’s solidarity with Fatma, Çavuşoğlu mentioned on Twitter that “our stance against racism, xenophobia and discrimination is clear.”
“The incident that Zehra encountered at a Swedish university is a bad example of the use of education in politics. During our phone conversation, I congratulated her for her acumen and dignified stance,” he added.
Fatma was accepted by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program for a summer time 2023 internship at a college of her selection.
One of the internships she utilized for was at Sweden’s Stockholm University. On Nov. 23, Fatma despatched an e mail to Prof. Per Carlbring, who leads a scientific psychology analysis group on the college, asking to participate in a analysis undertaking led by him.
Within a number of hours, Carlbring replied in English: “I would love to host you. However, since Turkey does not allow Sweden to join NATO, I have to decline. Sorry!”
Last June, Türkiye, Sweden and Finland signed a memorandum designed to pave the way in which for the 2 Nordic international locations’ NATO bids. Türkiye has not rejected their bids however says each international locations must stay as much as their pledges within the memorandum to take a agency stand in opposition to terrorism as a way to achieve membership, which it stresses they haven’t but performed.
