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The final hearing of the case against 69 people, who were detained and tortured ...
“a kind of psychological warfare”
The final hearing of the case against 69 people, who were detained and ...
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In recent days, the closure of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS) at Boğaziçi University ...
Following the tragedy at Güzelhisar Girls' Dormitory of Aydın Credit and Dormitories Institution (KYK), students in many ...
The second hearing of the 9th Bosphorus (Boğaziçi) Pride March Case was held at Çağlayan Courthouse. The ...
33 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack carried out by ISIS in Suruç district of ...
Police attacked youth organisations distributing leaflets to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Suruç Massacre on 17 ...
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The economic difficulties and housing crisis are ongoing topics in Turkey, and university students struggle too. With ...
Representatives from different rights organizations followed the hearing. The students described the torture and violence they were ...
For days, the 11th METU Pride March has been targeted by a group within the university, the ...
Recently, the lifeless body of Danys Dinabongho
Ibouanga, a 17-year-old Karabuk University student from Gabon, was found in ...
The earthquake affected millions of people in Turkey. The feminists state that women are facing greater hardships, ...
After the 6 February earthquakes that affected millions of people in Turkey, many initiatives and organizations with ...
After the decision of the President of Turkey and the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), the senate ...
The student groups organized protests against the online education decision. Riot police was present in the protests, ...
The protests against the decision of online education and usage of state dormitories for earthquake victims continue.
Following ...
After the 6th of February earthquakes affecting 10 cities in Turkey, many people lost their homes. As ...
Human Rights Association (İHD), Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), EuroMed Rights and the Civic Space Studies ...
The Voice of the University Podcast series, prepared by Civic Space Studies Association with the support of ...
Hosted by international non-governmental organizations; Our internship program, where two students do it face-to-face and one student ...
The Voice of University- Student News Portal For Trumpetting The Voice Of Students All Around Turkey Has ...
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UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS: MEDIA MONITORING REPORT-2021 İndir
Click here to read the last CSSA Student News Bulletin of 2021.
Tomorrow, on 7 January 2022, 14 students will stand trial at the 22nd
Criminal Court of First Instance ...
We made our study trip in which we met leading right defenders and international nongovernmental organizations in ...
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In November 2018, we as a small group of human rights defenders established Civic Space Studies Association ...
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"Visual Content Preference 2021"
In this seventh report of the "University in the News" Series, we examine closely ...
"Student's Voice"
In our sixth report on student activism, we examined closely the news that somehow include ...
"Crime and Criminalization 2021"
In our fifth report on student activism, we closely examined the patterns of crime ...
"Politicians Discourses 2021"
In the fourth of our University in the News report series, we closely examined the ...
Bulu, referring to the student protests, had said “it would end in 6 months”. And now after ...
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"Arrested Students 2021"
We devoted the third report of our research, examining how student protests and activist students ...
"LGBTI+ Students"
We devoted the second report of our research, examining how student protests and activist students ...
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To reach the Turkish version of ...
"Boğaziçi University Protests 2021"
The first report of the University in The News series examines how student protests ...
On March 30, Ömer Şengel was released from prison. Şengel was arrested in the protests in Kadıköy ...
As the Spring Term began, Boğaziçi University students staged a 6 day boycott. The students were also ...
Update on the Boğaziçi Protestors’ Trial
As part of the protests against the appointment of Melih Bulu as ...
Students Union publishes a report on Boğaziçi Protests: “It’s Up to All of Us Now!”
On March 7, ...
Indictments demand 3 to 8 years prison sentence for 10 students
Indictments were prepared against 10 students who ...
Two university students were detained in house raids yesterday evening for distributing a letter written from prison ...
The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) published a Preliminary Assessment Report on the Violations of Rights ...
A new campaign against the appointed rectors of Turkey, as well as the house arrest and imprisonment ...
Anıl Akyüz is one of nine students arrested due to their participation in Boğaziçi University protests. Akyüz ...
Since last year instruction on university campuses had been put on hold within the scope of COVID19 ...
Hacettepe University made it mandatory for its students to fill out a form to attend online exams. ...
Over 40 days have passed since the protests against the appointment of a rector at Boğaziçi University ...
This piece is a translation of our news published on February 10, 2021.
Students continue to be ...
The protests sparked by the appointment of Melih Bulu as a trustee rector to Boğaziçi have spread ...
On January 5, the Ministry of Justice published statistics on inmates’ levels of education. According to the ...
Burcu Karakaş started writing a series of articles titled University Students Tell their Stories in Deutsche Welle. ...
February 2 - The protests sparked by the appointment of Melih Bulu as a trustee rector to ...
Protestors gathered in Kadıköy for the protest against Melih Bulu’s appointment as a rector at Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) ...
The Pride Walk took place today (January 21) within the scope of protests against the appointment of ...
Women and LGBTI+ students came together to say “We don’t want women’s universities!”. The group gathered in ...
The protests sparked by the appointment of Melih Bulu to the Rectorate of Boğaziçi University continues across ...
The Avrasya University administration decided to conduct face to face final exams in the fall term. The ...
Gebze Technical University published its regulations to be followed during the fall term finals. The university administration ...
It is time for the fall term finals at Hacettepe University. The university administration recently announced that ...
The protests sparked by the appointment of Melih Bulu to Boğaziçi University Rectorate on January 1 continue. ...
The seventh hearing of the case against METU students on the charges of “insulting the president” took ...
Student clubs and associations issued a statement on their solidarity against the systematic pressure and censorship Hacettepe ...
The protests against the appointed rector at Boğaziçi University (BU) started on January 4 continued yesterday at ...
Following the protests against the appointment of a trustee rector to Boğaziçi University on January 4th, 19 ...
Students' homes were raided in the morning of January 5, the day after they participated in the ...
The student clubs based at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in a joint statement demanded that education should ...
Yeditepe University administration announced that the preparatory final exams will be held face to face. Students have ...
Hacettepe University Queer Studies Society (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Kuir Araştırmaları Topluluğu), founded in 2014, has been closed by ...
PEN Norway reports on the implications of the Bill for the Prevention of the Financing of the ...
ITU Solidarity won a legal victory after an intense fight. The process and contents of the lawsuit ...
On December 15th, 3 women students from Trakya University Women's Collective were called by the police and ...
On March 8th, 2017, a group of men assaulted the women who opened a stand and organized ...
In the 2020-2021 academic year, all but two universities announced that courses and exams would continue online: ...
Boğaziçi University (BOUN) students object to the university administration's decisions applied within the scope of distant education. ...
The hearing of 18 students and an academic, who are being tried on charges of "attending illegal ...
Bilkent University students’ fight against the decision to hold the exams face-to-face resulted in a victory. The ...
The Civic Space Studies Association is arranging workshops of Citizen Journalism on Campus and International Protection Mechanisms ...
Elif Akgül’s news story on students detained in prisons was published on T24.
"Under the pandemic when it ...
Speak Up Platform (Susma Platformu) Project Coordinator Ayşen Güven interviewed Baran Kaya,the legal counsellor of the Actors ...
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The NGO, Civil Society in the Penal System Association (CİSST) has published its 2019 Annual Report ...
Within the scope of the measures against the pandemic, midterm exams are held online in many faculties ...
The Marmara University administration has published their exam instructions. In the instructions, students are held responsible for ...
Izmir University of Economics (IUE) administration announced the upcoming exams. University administration stated that the students will ...
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Today is November 25th, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Women are protesting for ...
Problems in the exam system at Pamukkale University continue. The online midterm system has collapsed due to ...
The 2020-2021 midterm exams are being held online in many universities within the scope of Covid-19 measures. ...
At the Bilkent University, the 2020-2021 fall midterms were held face-to-face (unlike many universities) between November 7th ...
Konya Technical University administration decided that the midterms will be held online. In addition, the administration announced ...
Istanbul Medeniyet University announced the procedures and principles for the application of the fall midterms. In the ...
Çukurova University students objected to the university administration’s suggestion of freezing enrollments. The administration suggested the students ...
University students have started to take midterms and university administrations have announced the rules for the exams. ...
The Dean of the Faculty of Economics And Administrative Sciences had opened an investigation against Middle East ...
University students in Ankara came together to protest the Higher Education Council (YÖK) on the 39th anniversary ...
Yozgat Bozok University students complain about the rules of the online education system. In addition to many ...
Students cannot get their credits and loans due to an error in the Credit and Dormitories Institution ...
You can find this newly published article “Is This Your World of Justice?”, written by our executive ...
The lawsuit against the four students for carrying a banner with “The World of Tayyips” cartoon* at ...
The Annual Presidential Program for 2021 was published in the official gazette on October 27th. The annual ...
Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Medical Sciences Faculty students boycotted the university cafeteria on October 21st. The students assembled in ...
The online course system at Uşak University collapsed and gave errors when students were logging the new ...
Gazi University online course system (GUZEM)* collapsed in the beginning of the new academic term. Students who ...
The fall semester started on October 5th, 2020 at Medipol University. Students continue to select graduate and ...
Pamukkale University's online course system “Pusula” collapsed on the first day of its use. The system gave ...
As university students started to choose their fall term courses, the demands of students across the Republic ...
Most universities have chosen to apply the online education model in the fall term of 2020-2021. In addition, ...
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Simten Coşar, Elifcan Çelebi, Gülden Özcan and Emine Sevim, members of the Feminist Queer Researchers Network ...
Filiz Kerestecioğlu, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Member of Parliament for Ankara submitted a parliamentary question to ...
This piece is the translation of the interview by Mustafa Süzen from 24 Saat Gazetesi (24 ...
There are two widely discussed issues among students as the new academic year starts: The education methods ...
Governorships in some provinces, including Afyon, Çankırı, Sakarya, Sivas, Düzce, Kayseri and Elazığ, decided to keep Covid-19 ...
Sabancı University (US) is one of the universities that decided to continue distant education in the fall ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCU2FWaiUFk&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=CivicSpaceStudiesAssociation
University student clubs, societies and initiatives welcome the students starting their education in the new academic year ...
The Higher Education Council (YÖK) announced that university administrations would choose their own education models in the ...
University students continued to study online after the Covid-19 epidemic. It is not yet clear which applications ...
İzmir Metropolitan Municipality announced that there would be a rise in the cost of public transportation tickets ...
A new academic year starts at universities. While a hybrid face-to-face and online education system will be ...
Face-to-face education was suspended at universities in Turkey due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the decision ...
The Twitter account @CivicSpace_tr of our association (CSSA) was restricted by Twitter. Our twitter account is integral ...
Filiz Kerestecioğlu, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Member of Parliament for Ankara submitted a parliamentary question to ...
Twitter continues to restrict students’ news portals. As we announced before, the Twitter account of Mimar Sinan ...
You can find this newly published article "New Perspectives on Free Expression in Turkey During Covid-19", written ...
Ten different student clubs/groups conducting studies on women, LGBTI+ individuals and gender issues in various universities published ...
From the first day of the Covid-19 pandemic, university education was suspended for 3 weeks at first ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnutQjqC9Us&t=7s
University clubs and student societies have shown their support for remaining a part of the İstanbul Convention ...
On July 12th 2020, it was reported on social media that a psychology department will be opened ...
Hazel Başköy had signed the petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime!” ...
Twitter restricted the news portal accounts used by students at Istanbul University (IU) and Mimar Sinan Fine ...
Istanbul University announced that a psychology department will be opened in the "Open and Distant Education'' (AUZEF) ...
I am on campus. I have my pen in my hand, writing my own story line by ...
ODTÜ LGBTI+ Solidarity, one of the most rooted communities of ODTÜ (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi/METU-Middle East Technical ...
The Senate of Anadolu University had decided not to open a summer school, but students at the ...
The Yıldız Technical University (YTU) English Proficiency Exam (EPE/ IYS) will be held online on July 13th. ...
KTÜ (Karadeniz Technical University) students express their problems during online exams under the hashtags # ArtıkYeterKTU (This ...
University students have objected to the online examination system from the very first day. The students of ...
Gebze Technical University (GTÜ) students express their requests under the hashtag #GTÜÇözümİstiyor. The university administration has made ...
The protest of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) students on social media has been successful. The University Administration ...
University spring term has ended and students have taken their final exams. Administrations of universities have announced the ...
The Student Representatives Council (ÖTK) elections, which was postponed by The Higher Education Institution (YÖK) on October ...
It was promised in the university elections on June 23th that a public garden* would be built ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzj7A1nfVug&feature=emb_title
The theme of 28th Pride Week this year is focused on how safe LGBTI+ students feel on ...
Istanbul Technical University (ITU) administration has declared the conditions for taking the final exams and the preparatory ...
Hacettepe University Department of Health, Culture and Sports* (SKSDB) has made an announcement on June 16th that ...
The Atılım University Administration has announced the price determined per the European School Credit Transfer System (ECTS) ...
Kocaeli University’s (KOÜ) online examination system has collapsed. Therefore, students had problems taking exams and passing from ...
We would like to start our article with Ezhel’s words from the collaboration song “Fight Kulüp”. Ezhel ...
The Istanbul University (İÜ), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Administration had announced that microphones and cameras would be ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNgt-GGHLGU
The scholarship that our association's lawyer, Baran Kaya, had received from KYK during his university education was ...
TOBB Education and Technology University students try to announce their demands and problems by saying “we want ...
Students of Gaziantep University Faculty of Law assembled under the hashtag #gaünhukukmağdur. Students state that the online ...
One of the measures taken under the pandemic was the transition of universities to an online education ...
The Minister of Youth and Sports, M. Muharrem Kasapoğlu made a statement on Credit Dormitories Institution (KYK) ...
Yıldız Technical University (YTU) students took action on social media and demanded the university to open a ...
In Turkey Police have been violent towards citizens in many cities especially while enforcing the curfew, and ...
During the covid-19 pandemic, university students are experiencing additional problems. However, even under these conditions, students are ...
The university entrance exams (YKS) originally planned for 20th and 21st of June were postponed to 25th ...
#İTÜBirlikOlmalı*
One of the main problems for university students during the pandemic is rights violations caused in online ...