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‘Recent Amendments to Law on Higher Education Threaten Academic Freedom’

UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATION

‘Recent Amendments to Law on Higher Education Threaten Academic Freedom’

Releasing an opinion piece as to the recently amended law on higher education, the University Faculty Members Association (ÜNİVDER) has called on the government to avoid shaping the academia according to its own ideology with law amendments.

Parents Join Student Protests against Rise in Charges

Parents Join Student Protests against Rise in Charges

Parents supported their children in their protest against increases in study charges and against police violence.

28 July 2009 Çetin Ak

Heated Debate As Constitution Amended To Free Headscarves in The Universities

Heated Debate As Constitution Amended To Free Headscarves in The Universities

The ruling AKP's move to free headscarves in the universities, leads to strong reactions from the secularists. Some fear from the end of secular state, others argue limited freedom is hypocritical.

30 January 2008 Gökçe Gündüç

YÖK's New President: Yusuf Ziya Özcan

President Abdullah Gül has appointed Prof. Dr. Yusuf Ziya Özcan as the new president of the Turkish Council of Higher Education.

12 December 2007 Gökçe Gündüç

"Secularists' Fears Exaggerated" Say Feminists

Feminist Hidayet Tuksal, with Islamic beliefs, reacts to Turkey's major national daily Hürriyet's editor in chief Ertugrul Özkök for fanning fears of Islamic take over.

19 September 2007 Hidayet Tuksal