Hardly a day goes by in which a new list of university lecturer suspensions is not issued. Hardly a university remains whose teaching staff has not yet been interfered with.[¹] These actions have been taken based on the Civil Service Law, which sets descent and political activity as criteria.[²] Thus in a number of cases the cause of the suspensions is clear. But there are at least as many university lecturers whose removal from office has no discernible connection to the legal provisions.