Ankara University Political Science Dean Sancar Resigned

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Ankara University Faculty of Political Science(SBF) Dean Prof. Dr. Serpil Sancar has noted in her message sent to the academics “As of April 6, 2016, I resign from my position as Dean of Faculty of Political Science which I have taken up on December 29, 2014”.

Vice Dean Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Yıldız has noted in her message for the academics “I have resigned from my position as Vice Dean Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Yıldız”.  

CLICK - DEAN SANCAR: POLICE HAVE BEEN HINDERING EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITY FOR WEEKS

What had happened?

Police had used gas and plastic bullets on Ankara Cebeci Campus on March 31 as a result of which the exams have been postponed on the exams week.

Faculty of Political Science Dean Prof. Dr. Serpil Sancar had commented that during the incidents, the students had acted responsibly to not prepare an environment of tension with the police despite their provocations.

“Riot Squad entering the campus in order to intervene in the banners hung on the wall have been apart from this reason behaving badly against students and lecturers who were unaware of the incident in the faculty building for a few weeks, and causing chaos to an extent to hinder the education”.

She had summoned SBF Academic Council for meeting in order to discuss how education could be continued on the campus.

After the meeting, she has announced that necessary legal action would be taken against the police intervention.

Elected to the deanship in 2014, Prof. Dr. Sancar (Üşür) was the first woman to be dean in the 155th anniversary of the faculty's establishment.

About Prof. Dr. Sancar

She is an academic at Ankara University Faculty of Political Science, Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration. She is the director of Women and Gender Studies Department and Ankara University Women’s Problems Research and Application Center (KASAUM). (YY/DG)