Op-Eds

Bekir S. Gür

A View from Turkey: Higher Education after the Coup Attempt (July 2016)

Sedat Gumus & Bekir Gur, first posted in Canadian & International Higher Ed Blog, maintaned by the University of Toronto, July 27, 2016....

Bekir S. Gür

What Erdoğan really wants for education in Turkey: Islamization or pluralisation? (March 2016)

Gür, B. S. (2016). What Erdoğan really wants for education in Turkey: Islamization or pluralisation? Al Jazeera Centre for Studies....

Bekir S. Gür

Democratization and massification of higher education in Turkey and challenges ahead (February 2016)

Gür, B. S. (2016). Democratization and massification of higher education in Turkey and challenges ahead. (Research & Occasional Paper...

Bekir S. Gür

The flaw in the world-class university paradigm (January 2016)

Turkey is trying to overcome challenges of massification and universalisation of higher education.

Bekir S. Gür

How to abolish the Board of Higher Education (October 2014)

Bekir S. Gur, University World News, October 31, 2014. Turkey has expanded higher education at a remarkable rate in the last decade. The...

Bekir S. Gür

Turkey should establish Arabic-language university

Bekir S. Gür, Al Monitor, October 23, 2014. (Translated from Turkish daily Star, October 21, 2014.) The war in Syria has been under way...