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The Dark Sides of Turkish Universities

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  • The Dark Sides of Turkish Universities

    The Dark Sides of Turkish Universities
    By: Ahmet Abidin

    KurdistanObserver.com
    May 1 2005

    Recently, there are some international research listed that top
    500 universities in worldwide. Unfortunately, none of university or
    academic institution in this list. Here is the point, do you think
    is there any research in this country.

    Forget about to research lets a look a little bit university system
    in Turkey. The universities were never independent since the republic
    estabilished. Particularly, the academic system totally controlled
    by government, military and intelligence rules after 1971 and 1980's.

    How come, you can not choose your director, dean or president of
    your faculty by democratic election system. The institute called
    High Education Council (in Turkish YOK) is almost no different than
    Hitler's, Franco or Stalin's universities. Let's give an example.
    There are three candidate for president of X universities. You are
    the person got % 50 of votes. Second person got % 30 and the last
    one %20. So, the president of Turkey (of course after his long talk
    with military chief or intelligence) can decide third person can be
    president of university by %20 of votes. You can not be president
    because you are not favorite person.

    I saw that every corner of universities or research institutes are
    corrupted from bottom to top. There are only few people honest, not a
    lot. Every president has a secretary dealt with financial situation.
    They have a very strong skill how to financially feed themselves
    while others sleeping or ignore. Nobody were able to ask them how
    they spend people's money or budget instead of research facilities.

    I worked different fields or research when I was in Turkey. I felt
    so lucky during my childhood because I am the son of very honest and
    successful academic person. For example, when he was very honest
    and responsible about to use of financial resources at faculty,
    on contrary the others were ready to dishonest. These people were
    always ready to use resources for any of their personal benefits.

    Another spot is, if someone not liked by rulers at all there is always
    scenario against her/him easy. He is the separatist (bolucu), friends
    of Kurdish, Armenian, Religious or any other opposition which is not
    approved by rulers. This is also tragedy of social science. There are
    hundreds false research/ thesis done against the minorities. None of
    them scientific or accepted.

    In addition, many of truthful academic, lost their job, being tortured,
    being prisoners, exiled or killed by the monarch under the name of
    democratic university system. In summary, the universities are the
    puppet of dinosaurs or corrupted senior which can not be accepted by
    international academic authority.

    I am far from my roots. I don't know what really changed in the dark
    side of universities.
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