These protesters are either heavily infiltrated by PKK or deceived by their globalist handlers/funders. Universities can always be a problem for the state because of the so called "fraternal" connections they have with other Universities around the world. It is an easy way for outside powers to run covert operations aimed at destabilizing the country.
Also Turkish commies are biggest scum of earth. I nearly had a punch up with one in Netherlands some time after peace spring operation. They are also clever with words in order to deceive Turkish secularists so that they can be on their side. Mark my words even tho they claim to only be against Erdogan and his "Islamist rule" the reality is that they want cancelation of everything that represents Turkish Nationalism form Ataturk to Alparslan Turkes, Enver Pasha etc..
Also Erdogan is not an Islamist by any stretch of the imagination. Sure he has his negatives but as far as I know he has not attempted to cancel Ataturk which is what leftists, commies and PKK ultimately want. Also Calling RTE an Islamist is pure Western trash propaganda because Erdogan's political ideology is something best described as "National Islamic conservatism".
Erdogans best political move was making an alliance with Bahceli & MHP. Some people might say it he was just being pragmatic however it has allowed more nationalistic into mainstream & elite discourse. Which is important because every nation state needs some form of Nationalism in times of crisis and represented a break from Globalist traitors like Davutoglu & Gul who basically wanted Turkey to become a puppet of Gulf countries.
Anyway back to these protests now the problem with young people is that they are easily malleable and have a want and desire to be liked by others. So when they go on a student visit to another country and when a German/British/American/French/ professor or student group tell them about all the "awful things" Erdogan, Turkish Army, Gendarme etc.. are doing to Kurds the end up believing them because they want to "fit in" or be liked by their peers abroad.
Brainwashing phase then kicks in (famous saying "when a lie gets repeated 100 times it becomes the truth") and eventually they bring that shit home and start protesting against their own country for the sake of others.
Turkish commies & leftists are being used by outside powers who hate Turkey in order to destabilize the country. They are fully aware that Turkey is a macho society and that Erdogan has plans to create government incentives to increase birth rates so they use leftists, commies, student protesters, feminists & lgbt groups to undermine this.
Western Nations probably don't have plans to military invade Turkey but they would like to install puppets who will weaken the National Character of the Turkish Republic, cancel historical Turkish patriots just like they are doing in US & other Anglosphere countries right now and give some sort of Autonomy to the Kurds. Not enough for full independence but enough to make Turkey firmly under the boot of globalists as the nation would be far too weak to protect its interests from North Africa ,Mediterranean, Balkans, Mid-East & Kavkaz.
They probably want Turkey to sit quietly and do nothing as Turkmen get ethnically cleansed from Mid East, To withdraw military from Northern Cyprus so Greeks can take over the whole Island, severe ties with Azerbaijan so that NK becomes part of Armenia again and hand over all natural gas & oil reserves in Turkish sea water to foreign nations. Any one of these events who be a huge problem for Turkey.
This is how they want to destabilize and weaken Turkey