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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence of Istanbul Bilgi University – a private institution known for its liberal values and home to about 20,000 students – effectively shutting it down in the middle of the academic year. The decree, published in the Official Gazette, cites a law allowing closure of schools deemed “insufficient” in education and training, and follows a state takeover last year after Bilgi’s parent company, Can Holdings, was implicated in a money‑laundering and tax‑fraud investigation. With the university now run by a court‑appointed administrator, the Council of Higher Education pledged “necessary measures” so students can sit their end‑of‑year exams and continue their studies at Mimar Sinan University; protests erupted on campus and the university, founded in 1996 and ranked 1,401 globally, participates in the Erasmus Mundus programme.
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