18.03.2025 23:31
After the cancellation of İBB President Ekrem İmamoğlu's university diploma, the CHP Ankara Provincial Organization held a protest in front of the YÖK building.
After Istanbul University announced that it had canceled the diploma of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the country's agenda suddenly changed.
PROTEST IN FRONT OF YÖK
While the opposition expressed their reactions to the decision, news of consecutive protest demonstrations from the CHP began to emerge. The CHP Ankara Provincial Organization protested the cancellation of İmamoğlu's diploma in front of YÖK.
CALL TO MALTEPE
Meanwhile, Istanbul Provincial Chairman Özgür Çelik made a call for an opening ceremony that Mayor İmamoğlu will attend in Maltepe tomorrow at 2 PM. The CHP is expected to gather in Maltepe tomorrow.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had launched an investigation for the crime of "forgery in official documents" based on reports of İmamoğlu's bachelor's diploma being fake and findings in the report prepared by the Higher Education Council (YÖK) regarding the falsity of the diploma.
As part of the investigation, İmamoğlu's statement was taken on March 5.
The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, in its initial letter sent to the Istanbul University Rectorship, indicated in the research report of the Higher Education Council (YÖK) that during the relevant period, only Eastern Mediterranean University was recognized among the higher education institutions operating in the TRNC.
Considering the correspondence included in the report, it was stated that the letter mentioned that the recognition of foreign higher education institutions was a requirement for horizontal transfer processes, and therefore, it was understood that the horizontal transfer processes of the University College of Northern Cyprus (UCNC), which does not have recognition, were not carried out in accordance with YÖK's decisions by the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Business Administration at Istanbul University.
The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office requested that all certified copies of the documents related to the education İmamoğlu received at Istanbul University be sent, and asked for the identification of who and which individuals were responsible for the acceptance of horizontal transfers on September 12, 1990, along with their personal identification information.
In the letter, it was also requested that the response regarding whether similar horizontal transfer processes were carried out on the dates mentioned in the report related to horizontal transfers be sent to the prosecutor's office urgently.