Confiscated Universities and Academic Firing in Turkey
Summary Turkey has experienced a regime change, after a strange “coup attempt” on July 15th, 2016. Authoritarianism, which began about five years ago, evolved into …
Background of Academic Collapse: What Happened in Turkish Universities?
[vc_row][vc_column][featurebox heading=”” button_text=”PDF” button_url=”https://academicsolidarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/3-Collapse-of-Turkish-Universities.pdf”]Background of Academic Collapse: What Happened in Turkish Universities? Abstract Autonomy and employment security, which existed in partially in Turkish Universities, have …
Background of Academic Collapse
[vc_column][/vc_column][vc_row][vc_column][featurebox heading=”” button_text=”PDF” button_url=”https://academicsolidarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2-Background-of-Academic-Collapse-What-happened-in-Turkey.pdf”]Background of Academic Collapse: What happened in Turkey? Abstract Turkey was considered as a country which combined the democracy and secularism, at …
Is Artificial Intelligence Making Humans Dumber?
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times. (Michael Hopf) Michael Hopf’s …
Quantity or quality?
Is the cause of the moral decline the thieves themselves, or the fact that people emulate them? There was a time in Türkiye when young …
An Accusation of Academic Misconduct Is a Double-Edged Sword
We know what the mindset of “There is no need for a court order, break down his door and take the man” means in politics. …
Academic Freedom in Turkey Has Been Reduced to Zero
With a score of 0.09 on the Academic Freedom Index, Türkiye is among the countries where academic freedom is “completely restricted.” Academic freedom is sometimes …
How Much Wealth Is Good?
Ownership entails responsibility. Is the right to property absolute, or does the wealth one possesses bring with it certain obligations toward society? Where does an …
Chinese Civilization: From Ancient Cosmology to Global Power
“It is insufficient to explain China’s current economic and political rise solely through the reforms of the last forty or fifty years. Modern China rises …
The Discipline at the Heart of the Healthcare System
“Family physicians see the whole picture.” A seminar titled “Fundamentals of Family Medicine: Definitions and the WONCA Tree,” organized under the auspices of Academic Solidarity, …