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He has held various positions within the AKP since 2002 as rector of AKP President Tayyip Erdogan’s Boğaziçi University, and in 2015, Prof. Dr. The university professors reacted to his appointment of Melih Bulu.
In a written statement signed by the members of the Boğaziçi University faculty, “At midnight on January 1, 2021, an external rector was appointed for the first time after the military tutelage regime of the 1980s. This situation it is a continuation of the undemocratic practices that have been underway since 2016 and abolished rector elections. “It was said. In the statement, “We do not accept this practice that clearly threatens the academic autonomy, scientific freedom and democratic values of our university.”
The academics stressed that the university senate will not renounce the following principles adopted in 2012:
It is essential for scientific and social development that universities are not exposed to the influence or pressure of any person or institution and are not used as a political tool.
– It is essential for autonomy to have decision-making power in democratically elected academic boards and administrators of the universities. Academic administrators such as the rector, the dean, the director of the institute, the director of the school, the head of the department should be determined by election, not by appointment.
-Universities, as autonomous constitutional institutions, determine their academic programs and research policies by academic staff and / or university councils, which are the conditions for scientific freedom and creativity.
Along with all components of our university, we follow these principles.
