Presidents Appointed to 15 Universities by President Erdoğan

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President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed presidents to 15 universities. The appointments were published on the Official Gazette today (September 6).

Of the 15 universities, 11 of them are the new universities which have been established after the division of universities.

While 13 of the presidents appointed by President Erdoğan are men, only two of them are women.

Erdoğan has also appointed Prof. Dr. Halis Aygün as the Chair of the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM).

15 presidents

The university presidents appointed by Erdoğan are as follows:

Afyonkarahisar University of Health Sciences - Prof. Dr. Nurullah Okumuş.

Anadolu University - Prof. Dr. Şafak Ertan Çomaklı

Erciyes University - Prof. Dr. Mustafa Çalış

Eskişehir Technical University - Prof. Dr. Tuncay Döğeroğlu

Isparta University of Applied Sciences - Prof. Dr. İbrahim Diler

Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University - Prof. Dr. Niyazi Can

Kayseri University - Prof. Dr. Kurtuluş Karamustafa

Kırıkkale University - Prof. Dr. Ersan Aslan

Konya Teknik University - Prof. Dr. Babür Özçelik

Kütahya University of Health Sciences - Prof. Dr. Vural Kavuncu

Malatya Turgut Özal University - Prof. Dr. Aysun Bay Karabulut

Sakarya University of Applied Sciences - Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sarıbıyık

Samsun University - Prof. Dr. Mahmut Aydın

Tarsus University - Prof. Dr. Orhan Aydın

Trabzon University - Prof. Dr. Emin Aşıkkutlu

(BK/SD)