John Moores University Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. Edward Harcourt, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Ahmed Al-Shamma PhD, Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering Rafid Alkhaddar, Chairman of the Department of Dr. Dhiya Al-Jumeily attended the meeting.

Avrupa Uluslararası Eğitim Derneği Başkanı Laura Howard’ın eksik ve yanlış bilgilerle dolu konuşması karşısında hemen harekete geçtiklerinin altını çizen Dr. Aydın sözlerini şu şekilde sürdürdü:
“Bayan Howard daha konuşmasını tamamlamadan biz hemen bir yazı kaleme aldık. Bu yazıda Howard’ın akademik özgürlükle ilgili konuşmasında geçen ifadelerin eksik, yanlış ve kirli bilgiye dayandığını, bunun Türkiye’nin dışarda oluşturulmaya çalışılan olumsuz algısına destekten öteye gidemeyeceğini belirttik. Bunun mutlaka düzeltilmesi gerektiği yönündeki yazımızı e-mail olarak bu organizasyona katılan tüm katılımcılara aynı anda gönderdik. İnsanlar orada doğru bilgiyi edinmiş oldular. Avrupa Uluslararası Eğitim Derneği’nin ve bu organizasyonun başındaki kişiye de yazımızı ileterek kendisinden randevu talep ettik. Bunun üzerine toplanan dernek yönetim kurulu ile bir araya geldik ve ülkemiz için yapılan bu hatanın derhal düzeltilmesi gerektiğini, Türkiye’de akademik özgürlüğe yönelik bir kısıtlamanın asla olmadığını ancak terör örgütü olaylarına bulaşmış, Türkiye’nin birlik ve beraberliğine yönelik darbe girişimine katkı sağlamak için girişimde bulunmuş akademisyenlere dünyanın her yerinde uygulanan yaptırımların uygulandığını söyledik. Bu akademisyenlerin de kısıtlı sayıda olduğunu ve Türkiye’deki akademik özgürlükle ilişkilendirilemeyeceği yönünde kendilerini kapsamlı bir şekilde bilgilendirdik. Bizim bu notamız karşısında bize, yanlış algılandığını ve Türkiye’nin imajına hiçbir şekilde zarar vermek gibi bir niyetlerinin olmadığını hem sözlü hem de yazılı olarak belirtti. Açılış konuşmasında yapmış olduğu hatayı da kapanış konuşmasında telafi etti.”
DEİK Eğitim Ekonomisi İş Konseyi Başkanı Dr. Mustafa Aydın bu çalışmayı ilgili tüm bakanlık ve kurumlarla paylaştıklarını belirterek “Biz bu çalışmalarımızı Dışişleri Bakanlığı, Avrupa Birliği Bakanlığı, YÖK ve Dış Ekonomik İlişkiler Kurulu ile paylaştık. Böyle bir platformda, Avrupa Uluslararası Eğitim Derneği’nin organizasyonunu yapan kişinin bunu dile getirmesi çok manidar ve bu güçlerin nasıl çalıştıklarının çok net bir göstergesidir. Burada bizlere düşen, adeta sınırda 24 saat nöbet tutan bir asker gibi uyanık olmamız gerektiğidir. Türkiye’nin aleyhine yapılmaya çalışılan bu hareketi arkadaşlarımızla birlikte Türkiye’nin lehine çevirmiş olduk.” şeklinde konuştu.

After coup attempt by FETO, some academicians who have connections with the terrorist group FETO, were discharged from universities. This issue is reflected as restriction of academic freedom in Turkey at the education exhibition where 250 universities and 6000 academic participated from 80 countries.

President of Higher Education Business Council at DEİK and IAU, Dr. Mustafa Aydın and Turkish University Commission published an article and corrected the Anti- Turkish speech by President of EAIE Laura Howard and Europe International Education Association. Thus, 6,000 participants, universities, visitors and the press specifically from Europe and England were informed correctly about Turkey.

President of EAIE “There is no academic freedom in Turkey”

President of Higher Education Business Council at DEİK, Dr. Mustafa Aydın added, “ After coup attempt in Turkey, some people has been trying to damage Turkey’s reputation at every platform.” Every year EAIE is held in a different country. This year it is held in Liverpool. There were 250 universities and 6000 university representatives from 80 countries. We also took a place and represented our university as DEIK with approximately 100 academic personnel and 15 university booths. Unfortunately, during the opening ceremony, we witnessed one more time that member of the evil powers has been working. President of EAIE said “ There is no academic freedom in Turkey. For this reason, there was not enough participants from Turkey to this organization. It made us so sad and surprised. Because we have already attended the organization with DEIK and 100 faculty members of 25 universities.”

We Turn an Anti-Turkish Propaganda Into a Favor of Turkey with Our Friends

Underscoring their immediate action against EIEA president Laura Howard’s speech full of wrong information, Dr. Mustafa Aydın added, “Before Mrs. Howard completed her speech, we have started to write a statement. At this article, we mentioned that Miss Howard has imperfect knowledge and wrong information about academic freedom in Turkey. This imperfect knowledge will not go beyond supporting the negative perception outside of Turkey. We sent our statement which was emphasizing the correction of her speech, to all participants of the organization by email at the same time. This way, people got the right information. We also sent this article to European International Education Association and head of this organization. And asked for an appointment from them. At the meeting, we emphasized again that “there is no restriction for academic freedom however if any academician who had connection with terrorist group and supported coup attempt were punished like it was done at other countries. This mistake must be corrected immediately.” We also informed them that there are only few academicians who dismissed from their profession and it cannot be related with restriction of academic freedom. After that article, they also expressed their regret and accepted that they had wrong information about Turkey and they never wanted to tarnish Turkey’s image in verbal and written way. They also compensated their mistake at closing speech.

President of Higher Education Business Council at DEİK, Dr. Mustafa Aydın said, “we shared this statement with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of EU, Council of Higher Education and DEIK. Unfortunately, it was so meaningful for Laura Howard president of the organization to make such a statement at this platform and clearly indicated how these evil power work. We should be on alert like a soldier at border. We turned Anti-Turkish perception into a favor of Turkey with our friends.”

Bu yıl İstanbul Aydın ile birlikte Türkiye’den 15 Üniversite standıyla birlikte EAIE’ye katılarak, ülkemizi EEİK tarafından organize edilen “Study in Turkey” pavilyonlarında temsil ettiler.
EAEC Başkanı ile Görüşme EAEC – Avrupa Erasmus Koordinatörler Derneği Başkanı Gregory Makrides ile EAIE Konferansı esnasında görüşen Dr. Mustafa AYDIN ve heyeti birçok başlık altında görüşmeler gerçekleştirdi. Görüşmeler çerçevesinde; EAEC’nin EURIE’ye işbirlikçi Partner olarak katılması ve ortak projelerin uygulanması konusunda işbirliğine varıldı.

EAIE Yönetimi ile Görüşme

EAIE Konferansı esnasında, EAIE Yönetimi ile özel toplantı kapsamında; Dr. Mustafa AYDIN, EAIE Başkanı Laura Howard ve Başkan Yardımcısı Markus Laitinen ile görüştü. Görüşme sonucunda; Study in Turkey ile EAIE arasında işbirliklerinin geliştirilmesi ve önümüzdeki yıl EAIE Konferansı için şimdiden gerekli zemin oluşturulurken; EURAS ile işbirliklerinin derinleştirilmesi ve 2017 EURIE Zirvesinde İşbirlikçi Partner olarak katılmaları resmileşti.

Dr. Mustafa Aydın and IAU EAIE Delegation attended various workshops regarding international education throughout the conference, where also laid the foundations of numerous collaborations with various Higher Education Institutions and Ministries by coming together with several University representatives to commence creating new partnerships and joint programs.
This year, 15 Turkish Exhibitor Universities including IAU attended EAIE and represented Turkey under “Study in Turkey” Pavilions organized by Higher Education Business Council.

Meeting with EAEC President

Dr. Mustafa AYDIN and his Delegation met with the President of EAEC – European Association of Erasmus Coordinators, Gregory Makrides during the EAIE Conference and held talks in many different subjects. Collaborations on mutual projects will be initiated and European Association of Erasmus Coordinators will be the collaborative partner of EURIE 2017.  

Meeting with EAIE Management

During EAIE Conference, Dr. Mustafa AYDIN met with EAIE Management, President Laura Howard and Vice President Markus Laitinen about how to enhance and develop the International Higher Education collaboration between EAIE and Study in Turkey as well as EURAS and invited EAIE to EURIE – Eurasia Higher Education Summit. As a result of the meetings between EURIE and EAIE presidencies during the conference, EAIE will be the collaborative partner of 2017 EURIE Summit.

Annual Eid Al-Ahda  celebration took place at Halit Aydın Campus with the participation of Istanbul Aydın University President Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Rector Prof. Dr. Yadigar Izmirli, and the academic personnel of the university.

Holidays should be celebrated as holidays said Dr. Aydin and added, “I wish the brotherhood and solidarity are remembered and prevails in our families, society, our city and our country.”

Dr. Mustafa Aydın celebrated staff’s holiday after his speech.

Hain darbe girişimi karşısında Türk halkının büyük bir kahramanlık örneği sergilediğini vurgulayan İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Mütevelli Heyet Başkanı Dr. Mustafa Aydın “Türk halkı 15 Temmuz’daki hain saldırılara, hain kalkışmalara ve milleti bölmeye çalışan kirli zihniyete karşı yekvücut olmuştur. Bu destansı duruşuyla kendi özgürlüğü ve demokrasisi için canını seve seve feda edebileceğini tüm dünyaya göstermiştir. Bu hainlerin saldırılarına karşı aziz milletimizin canı pahasına verdiği mücadele her türlü takdirin üzerindedir. Sadece devletin, hükümetin ve siyasi partilerin çalışmalarıyla dünya kamuoyunu aydınlatmaya çalışmak yeterli değildir. Üniversiteler, sivil toplum kuruluşları, özel ve kamu kuruluşları kısacası herkes el ele vermeli ve Türk halkının demokratik duruşundaki haklılığı dünyaya duyurmalıdır.” dedi.

İAÜ Mütevelli Heyet Başkanı Dr. Aydın, Türk Halkı’nın bu davranışı ile İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi tarafından Nobel Barış Ödülü’ne aday gösterildiği hatırlatmasında bulunarak “Nobel Barış Ödülü aslında bir sembol. Hepimiz bugünlerde demokratik duruşu, fedakârlığı, halkı için kendisini feda eden liderinin duruşunu, hükümetinin ortaya koymuş olduğu iradeyi gördük. Maalesef dünya kamuoyu bunu çok farklı mecralardan kirli bilgilerle aktarmaktadır. Biz aslında Nobel Barış Ödülü’nü bir şemsiye olarak kullanıyoruz. Asli olan, bu halkın ortaya koymuş olduğu iradenin dünyaya anlatılması ve dünyaya duyurulmasıdır.” şeklinde konuştu.

27 journals placed at Taksim for citizens to put their thoughts and feelings about Fethullah Terrorist Organization’s (FETO) July 15 treacherous coup attempt will be published into a book with a joint collaboration of Istanbul Aydin University and Beyoglu Municipality.

Journals that were placed at Taksim for the citizens to pass on what they went through that night after the coup attempt, by Beyoglu Municipality with the slogan “ People are making history” have caught the attention of people from all parts of the society and the number of journals reached 27 in a short time. Witnessing the treacherous coup attempt and defending their will risking their own lives and exhibiting such a heroic act, citizens of Turkey will put their experience they went through that night and Istanbul Aydin University Sociology group will analyze and publish them into a book.
Emphasizing Turkish people’s heroic act against the treacherous coup attempt, Istanbul Aydin University president Dr. Mustafa Aydin said, “Turkish people has acted and united together against treacherous attacks, treacherous coup attempts and darks minds that want to divide our nation. They have shown the entire world that they can gladly sacrifice their lives for their freedom and democracy with their legandary stance. The fight our people put up against those attacks are beyond any appreciation. It is not enough to inform the public with the works of our state, government and political parties. Universities, NGOs, private and public enterprises, and everyone else must unite together and let the whole world recognize the righteousness of the democratic stance of the people of Turkey.”

Reminding the candidacy of Turkish people’s bravity for Nobel Peace Prize, IAU president Dr. Mustafa Aydin added, “ Nobel Peace Prize, in fact, is a symbol. We have all seen the democratic stance, sacrifice, a leader’s stance who devoted himself for his people and the will its government has exhibited. Unfortunately, world’s public opinion passes on this to others based on inaccurate information through different means. We are using Nobel Peace Prize as an intermediary. Our main objective is to pass our people’s will and let the world hear it.”

El Paris Gazetesi Türkiye Temsilcisi Andres Mourenza Aydın Düşünce Platformu’nda 15 Temmuz darbe girişimini değerlendirdi. Mourenza, darbe girişiminden bir sonraki gün babasının kendisini aradığını ve Türk halkının böyle bir girişimi engellemiş olmasından gurur duyduğunu söyleyerek “1981 yılında İspanya’da tanklar sokağa çıktığında bizim halkımız bu kadar hızlı ve sert bir tepki vermemişti. Mourenza, Avrupa’dan ve diger ulkelerden darbeyle ilgili kinamalarin gec gelmesine deginerek ” Bu tur olaylarda cesitli ihtimaller vardir. bunlardan ilki gocmen krizi, Ikinci faktor ise Avrupa’daki asiri sagci partilerin yukseliste olmasi.Bir baska sebep ise Turk hukumetinin otoriter bir sert yapiya sahip oldugunu dusunmeleri”dedi.

Turk Halkinin Durusunun Gozardi Edilmesi Kabul Edilemez

IAU Mutevelli Heyet Baskani Dr.Mustafa Aydin; ” Turk halki 15 Temmuz’daki hain saldirilara’ hain kalkismalara ve milleti bolmeye calisan kirli zihniyete karsi yekvucut olmustur. Bu destansi durusuyla kendi ozgurlugu ve demokrasisi icin canini seve seve feda edebilecegini tum dunyaya gostermistir.

Turk halkinin demokrasi ugruna din,dil,irk,mezhep ve renk ayrimi yapmaksizin darbecilere karsi durusunun Bati tarafindan takdir edilmemesi bizim canimizi acitmaktadir. Bati, Sayin Cumhurbaskani Recep Tayyip Erdogan ile fikir ayriliklari yasamis olabilir. Bunu kabul ederiz veya etmeyiz. Fakat; kahraman Turk Halki Sayin Cumhurbaskani’nin cagrisi uzerine yek vucut olarak,darbeye karsi dik durmus ve demokrasiyi savunmustur.  Bu ugurda 246 sehit vermis, 2bine yakin kisi yaralanmistir. Ideolojik olarak arasinda farkliliklarin olmasina ragmen, uc siyasi parti de demokrasi ugruna ayni bayrak altinda bir araya gelmistir.
Tum bu yasananlardan sonra AB’nin “Turk halkinin darbe girisimine karsi yaklasimi ve birligi her turlu takdirin uzerindedir” dememesi Bati’yi sorgulamamazi zorunlu kilmaktadir. Bati icin demokrasi,menfaati ile dogru orantidadir.”

12 Eylul Sonrasi Icin Insan Hazirladilar
 
IAU ogretim uyesi Prof.Dr.Necat Birinci; “Gezi olaylari, 17 – 25 Aralik olaylari ve 15 Temmuz. Gezi olaylari CNN International’da saatlerce naklen yayinlandi. Buyuk bir algi operasyonu yapildi, aslinda darbe oaradan basliyor. 17 – 25 Araliktaki algi, aslinda Cumhurbaskanimiza ve ogluna dogrudan yapilmis bir hakaretti ve  bu engelendi. Darbe orada da durduruldu. Sahsi kanaatim Feytullah’i Turkiye uretmedi. 12 Eylul’de darbe yapanlar daha sonraki darbe icin insan hazirladi” dedi.
 
Batı Dünyası Travma Yaşıyor
 
Demokrasi; kutsaltilmistir, askin bir deger haline donusturulmus, asla vazgecilmeyecek evrensel bir kurum ve yonetim tarsi oldugunu soyleye AK Parti Istanbul Milletvekili Nureddin Nebati; ” 15 Temmuz aksami Bati’nin asla vazgecmeyecegi, butun dunya ulkelerinin  donuserek sahip olmasi gereken ‘ demokrasiye’ karsi bir tecavuz olayi islendi. Bu hadsiye kendi gucumuz ve ozgur irademizle atlattik. Ama gordugum kadariyla Bati dunyasi, Turkiye’de demokrasinin icsellestirilmesi nedeniyle bir travma yasiyor. Bence Bati’nin bu travmayi yasanmasinin sebebi Turkiye’de demokrasiyi icsellestiren kesimin Bati zihniyetinde olmayanlarda olusmasidir” dedi.

Istanbul Aydın University Aydın Thinking Platform’s September meeting discussed July 15 treacherous FETO coup attempt and its reflections in Europe and the world. Andres Mourenza, El Pais reporter in Turkey, a Spanish newspaper, attended the meeting as a speaker. The meeting was titled as July 15 Coup Attempt and Its Aftermath and attendees included AK Party Istanbul representative Feyzullah Kıyıklık, Dr. Nureddin Nebati, former representative of Kırklareli A. Gokhan Sarıcam, IAU president Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Cultural Council chairman Dr. Metin Korkut Tuna, IAU Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Celal Nazım Irem Ph.D,  IAU lecturers M. Saim Yeprem, Ph.D., Necat Birinci Ph.D., Halis Ayhan Ph.D.

Our People Have Never Responded So Fast and Strong

Andres Mourenza has evaluated the July 15 coup attempt. Mentioning his phone conversation with his father, he said that his father called him and said how much he was proud of the Turkish people for their bravery and added, “ When the tanks took the streets of Spain in 1981, we did not respond that fast and strong.” Mourenza also touched on the issue of having condemnations from Europe and other countries very late and said, “There are some negligence in this issue; one of them is refugee crisis and the other one is the rise of far right parties in Europe. Another reason is that they think Turkey has more of an otoritarian government.”

Turkish People’s Stance Cannot Be Ignored 

“Turkish people has united against treacherous coup attempt and dark minds to split our nation on July 15. With this legendary and heroic stance, it showed the world that they can gladly die for their country and people. It hurts us when the West does not appreciate Turkish people’s stance against coup without considering religious, language, ethnicity, and race differences. The West might have differences in terms of thoughts with the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. We can accept that or not. But, Turkish people stood against the coup and defended democracy that night in response to President Erdogan’s call. We have 246 martyrs and over 2,000 wounded for this cause. Three political parties gathered under the same flag for democracy although they have ideological differences. After all that we went through, EU still does not say “ Turkish people’s unity and approach against coup attempt is beyond any appreciation” and this makes us question the West. For the West, democracy is directly related with its interests,” said Dr. Mustafa Aydın, IAU President.

They Prepared  People for After September 12

“Gezi Park incidents, December 17-25 incidents and July 15. After the Gezi Park incident, CNN broadcasted live for hours. December 17-25 was a direct insult to our Prime Minister and his son and it was prevented. I personally think that Fethullah Gulen is not manifactured by Turkey. Those who led a successful coup on September 12 have prepared people for the next coup,” said Necat Birinci, Ph.D., a IAU lecturer.

The Western World is Traumatized 

Organized for the first time, President of World Etnospor Cultural Federation Bilal Erdoğan attended the First Etnospor Cultural Festival took place in Küçükçekmece /Bezirganbahçe. Governor of İstanbul Vasip Şahin, District Governor of Küçükçekmece Harun Kaya, Mayor of Küçükçekmece Temel Karadeniz, President of IAU and President of City Council Dr. Mustafa Aydın also attended to the Festival.

Fashion Design student of IAU, Ayşe Cora who represented Turkey at Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games held between 5-21 August as a Turkish National Basketball team player visited President of IAU Dr. Mustafa Aydın as soon as she returned home. Dr. Mustafa Aydın awarded her with a plague because of her success at Turkish National Basketball Team, during the meeting.

Expressing her happiness about their successful performance at the Olmpics, Ayşe Cora said,  “ The Olympic Games is the biggest sport organization in the world. It was an honor for us to be part of the Olympics. We believed that we would win a medal. We never had a feeling that “participating at the Olympics was enough.” Because we went to Rio de Janeiro for a medal. We were very close to get a medal. We struggled really well and performed well at the games, in general. But there are some good and bad moments in basketball just like in life. It was really bad to lose a point in the last minute against Spain.

Every moment can change the faith of match. This one makes basketball enjoy full. We would have been successful but we didn’t. But ıt was a good experience for us before Tokyo Olympic Games which will start in 4 years. Things happen in a split second and this is what makes basketball a great game. We could have won the last second but we still have a chance to participate at Tokyo Olympics. This has been a very good experience for us. We took our lesson. If we can join the Tokyo Olympic Games, we use our experience we got from Rio.”