Tag: Turkish academia

  • Provincial Universities: The AK Party’s Backyard Campus

    Provincial Universities: The AK Party’s Backyard Campus

    Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia

    William Armstrong

    January 30

    Turkey Book Talk #211 – Tuğba Tekerek, journalist and author, on “Taşra Üniversiteleri – AK Parti’nin Arka Kampüsü” (Provincial Universities: The AK Party’s Backyard Campus), published by İletişim.

    The book examines the impact of the government’s push to open over 100 universities across Turkey over the last two decades. It paints a picture of falling academic standards but increased outlets for the ruling party’s religious nationalist ideology.

    tugba tekerek Tasra Universiteleri AK Partinin Arka Kampusu