Pınar Üre, Department of International History, London School of Economics The centralized control mechanism that the Yükseköğretim Kurulu, or YÖK, exercises over Turkish universities, has received considerable notoriety at home and abroad. Founded in 1982, shortly after the infamous military coup, the very existence of YÖK reflects the zeitgeist of the period when it was [...]

Derya Ozkul – Alumna of Bogazici University  Note: To understand the situation of Turkish universities in crisis, one would need to write about the overarching neoliberal policies and all the attempts at policing the resistance against them. Yet this would require a more comprehensive investigation. Here I will have to limit myself to only one [...]

By Aytül Kasapoğlu, Ankara University The University of Ankara  was established in 1946 and comprises faculties of Law, Letters, Science, Medicine, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Divinity, Political Sciences, Pharmacy, Dental Medicine, Educational Sciences, Communication, Health Education and Engineering. Located in the capital of Turkey, it is a comprehensive state university with 44,952   students (10,557 graduate students), [...]