University Presidency Rejects Dean Sancar’s Resignation
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Ankara University Presidency has announced that the resignation of Dean of Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University, Prof. Dr. Sancar has not been accepted.
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Sancar had announced in her mail she had sent to the academics on April 5, that she had resigned. The presidency of the university making a written statement to state-run Anadolu News Agency (AA) that the dean’s resignation was rejected.
The presidency has added in their statement that “ The expressions implying that the security forces had inflicted physical violence on the students and the academics in the incidents which have occurred did not reflect the truth exactly”. The security forces had entered the faculty in order to catch those who have inflicted violence and injured some students.
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 on 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)