Pointing out the statements of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about "women's universities" are important, HUDA PAR said in his weekly agenda assessment that they "regard and support the start of the process of establishing women's universities in Turkey as a long overdue but important step."

Two dark spots awaiting to be clarified: Başbağlar and Sivas

HUDA PAR recalled that around 100 assassins stormed the village of Başbaglar, committed a great atrocity after gathering the villagers, killed some by gunfire, while burned others inside their houses on July 05, 1993.

When the savages left the village, they left behind 33 bodies; the school, the mosque and the village guesthouse, as well as 191 houses and 4 vehicles,  had been burned.

The trial process had been turned into a huge freak and the file was closed as 'unsolved' while the relative of slain Başbağlar villagers, who were left unclaimed, waited for the killers to be accounted.

During the judicial process, the confessors who accepted the massacre were not brought to trial. The militias who confessed to participating in the massacre from the surrounding villages were released after a short trial process. According to the inhabitants of Başbağlar, and the suspects were exonerated as a result of the pressures of the political will of the period.

The fact that the political will and the judiciary of the period have covered together was as crucial as a second massacre for the public conscience and the families of the victims.

"No one can deny the reality that the Başbağlar massacre was carried out as 'Revenge of Sivas'," HUDA PAR said.

"The attitude of certain individuals has been a major provocation factor in this incident. Because of this provocation, thousands of people gathered in front of the Madimak hotel to protests. The event grew and the hotel was burned in a way that is not understood even today how it happened.

The bill for the event, which resulted in the deaths of 37 people in the hotel and the demonstrators, was cut to 33 at the end of a tragicomic judicial process, while the massacre of Başbağlar, which was carried out as revenge, was closed down and left unsolved.

However, some of the defendants who were sentenced had even proved in documents that they were not in Sivas city on the day of the incident.

"Sivas and Başbağlar cases should be re-addressed both in terms of the events and the scandalous judicial processes," HUDA PAR said, calling for a reconsideration of the Sivas and Başbağlar cases.

"These two massacres, at a time when unsolved events are intense and mob-oriented in the name of the state, should be re-investigated with their judicial processes. The chain of events left to darkness should be brought to light. The real perpetrators should be revealed," HUDA PAR called.

We support the establishment of women's universities in Turkey

Although there are many women universities in other countries such as Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Sudan, Pakistan, as well as in other world countries such as Austria, Britain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, and India, while there is a lack of such facilities in Turkey.

Since then, as HUDA PAR, we express that coeducation is a great problem both pedagogically and in terms of the characteristics of human creation, and we want the establishment of an alternative school system.

In this respect, we regard and support the launch of the process of establishing women's universities in Turkey as a long overdue but important step."

HUDA PAR noted that they have difficulty in understanding the insistence on the coeducational system in Turkey when it is reducing student achievement and causing indiscipline while the countries that have a say in education in the world are questioning the coeducational system.

ILKHA