{"id":64027,"date":"2026-05-22T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=64027"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:57:06","slug":"turkiye-the-attraction-of-foreign-students-shuts-down-30-years-old-world-ranking-university-of-20-k-in-the-mid-of-academic-year-on-money-laundering-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/turkiye-the-attraction-of-foreign-students-shuts-down-30-years-old-world-ranking-university-of-20-k-in-the-mid-of-academic-year-on-money-laundering-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkiye, the Attraction of Foreign Students, Shuts Down 30 Years old World Ranking University of 20 K in the Mid of Academic Year on Money Laundering Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tazeen Akhtar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Universities in Turkiye are seeing a hard time because the government and the courts are taking actions and issuing verdicts against them. Two consecutive incidents of such nature have spread panic among the higher education circles of the country , especially the foriegn students are exptremely concerned about their future.<\/p>\n

Turkiye has revoked the operational licence \u2060for \u2060a top private university with liberal values, effectively forcing it to close in the middle of the academic year, after the institution was seized \u2060by the state in a criminal investigation last year.<\/p>\n

In a presidential decree, published in the Official Gazette on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence for Istanbul Bilgi University, which has an estimated 20,000 students from Turkiye and across the world.<\/p>\n

Last year, the school was seized by the state in a criminal investigation after its parent company, Can Holdings, was caught up in a money laundering and tax fraud sweep. Since then, Bilgi University has been run by a court-appointed administrator.<\/p>\n

Bilgi University takes part in the Erasmus Mundus programme. The institution was founded in 1996, and is known for its liberal values. The school\u2019s motto is \u201clearning not for school but for life\u201d. It currently ranks at 1,401 in the world according to QS World University ranking.<\/p>\n

Turkiye\u2019s Council of Higher Education promised to take \u201cthe necessary measures\u201d to ensure the students at the social sciences university, who were due to sit end-of-year exams in June, \u201csuffer no harm\u201d. But the matter of fact is harm has already been caused.<\/p>\n

How the students of a university may have respect and acceptance of their education who have been studying in a University that was shut down for criminal record? This is simple question that has not been answered properly by the Turkish Authorities. Secondly, it exposes the lacunas in the higher education licensing system of Turkiye. How a Company can get Education licence when it is involved in money laundering. Certainly the company did not start money laundering after the launch of the university.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Turkish local broadcaster TRT Haber reported that students will continue their education at Mimar Sinan University, the guarantor state university that does not look possible. It means one university will adjust the whole another university. It is impossible.<\/p>\n

The students and teachers are asking the question ” Why we suffer for the wrong deeds , if any, of the parent company.” The government should shut down the company but why the university? Videos of dozens of students protesting at the university circulated online. Some held banners that said, \u201cThis is just the beginning, the struggle continues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yamen Akdeniz, Bilgi professor of law wrote on X, that an \u201cinstitution built with 30 years of effort was\u00a0 shut down overnight\u201d.<\/p>\n

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