ALI GUNES

Unfair Smear Campaigns against Turkey Prof. Dr. Ali Gunes The Social Scıences Unıversity of Ankara V ice-Rector ali.gunes@asbu.edu.tr 0531 209 10 38 A month ago my colleague and I attended the EAEI 2018 Education Fair/conference in Geneva, Switzerland, to promote both Turkish higher education and Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU). Around 5500 participants were present in the conference to establish and expand networking with the universities across the world. Founded in 1989, the EAIE is the recognised European centre for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalisation of higher education across the world, and it organizes international education conferences every year in a different European country (for example, the EAIE 2019 will be held in Helsinki, Finland, from 24–27 September 2019 with the theme “Encompassing all voices”). It was very successful for us since we found a good chance to promote our university for the first time in an intern...

Protection of Academic Heritage in the Middle East Last week the Council of Turkish Higher Education (YÖK) hosted under the auspices of Presidency of Turkish Republic an important conference titled the “Project for Protecting Academic Heritage in the Middle East.” In collaboration with Turkish Radio Television Corporation (TRT) and Anatolian News Agency (AA), the project was coordinated by Professor Zeliha Kocak Tufan, the member of YÖK’s supervisory board, and the conference was attended by the vice president of the Turkish Republic, YÖK’s head, ambassadors, rectors and representatives of Turkish Universities, along with particularly Syrian academicians and students living in Turkey. Within the scope of the project, first, participants first watched the heart-wrenching stories of those Syrian refugee scholars and students at Turkish universities, filmed by TRT and supported with visual pictures by AA, and then followed protocol speeches in accordance with the content of the project...