Crackdown on university teachers in Turkey?

Toward the end of this otherwise unremarkable story* there is a worrisome bit:

In the meantime, Turkey's Education Ministry and Higher Education Board (YÖK) have launched investigations against teachers and university lecturers across the country who allegedly encouraged their students to join in the Gezi Park demonstrations, media reports said on Tuesday.

*Such is the state of discourse in Turkey nowadays (obviously, my grasp of the Turkish situation is filtered through news stories in English) that this bizarre sentence hardly seems out of the ordinary: " 'Firing tear gas is a most natural right of the police. Have they fired a bullet? Have they used guns?' Erdoğan asked."