Expulsion of Academics to be Reevaluated, says Vice PM Canikli

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Vice Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli has said that the list concerning expels of academics will be sent to the Higher Education Council (YÖK) and the wrongdoings will be fixed.

According to a report by Nuray Babacan from Hürriyet newspaper, expulsion of 330 academics by the latest Statutory Decree was discussed as well at Group Administrative Board of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) meeting. The AKP deputies brought the subject to agenda, the report says. The members asked Canikli of who prepared the list. The members stated that they closely know many figures on the list and there is no chance that they could be anyway linked with any illegal group.

Canikli responded that the list was prepared by the YÖK and wrongdoings do occur occasionally but they show effort to fix those. The critics related to the latest Statutory Decree will evaluated and the YÖK will be asked to re-evaluated the list.

What happened?

330 academics from 48 universities were expelled from public service by Statutory Decree No. 686 issued on February 7, 2017 as part of the State of Emergency.

Many academics among whom were İbrahim Kaboğlu, Yüksel Taşkın, Funda Başaran, Jale Özata, Mine Gencel Bek, Ahmet Haşim Köse, Gökçen Alpkaya and Murat Sevinç were on this expel lists. (BK/TK)