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The North Rhine-Westphalia Police Academy is sticking to the expulsion of lecturer Bahar Aslan. University President Martin Bornträger had a confidential conversation with Aslan last Friday in Gelsenkirchen, the university has now announced. At the same time, however, she affirmed that nothing would change in the revocation of the teaching assignment for Aslan.
The conversation was constructive and marked by a common concern to further develop the topics of extremism and intercultural competence. The resulting polarization is regretted by all parties involved. Both sides had promised to stay in talks. Aslan had announced that she would go to court against her expulsion.
The university had revoked Aslan's teaching assignment for the coming semester after she had tweeted about "brown dirt" in the police. The tweet read: "My heart is racing when I or my friends get into a police check because all the brown dirt inside the security agencies scares us. This is not only my reality, but that of many people in this country."
»Unfortunate choice of words«
Aslan later acknowledged an "unfortunate choice of words" and said she was sorry if police officers who were doing their job in an exemplary manner felt addressed. Her lawyer said it gave the impression that Aslan was "deliberately misunderstood". Aslan exaggerated, but did not describe all police officers as "brown dirt".
Aslan had a teaching assignment for »intercultural competences« at the University of Police and Public Administration (HSPV) Gelsenkirchen.
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