The data has been collected by tukeypurge.com and web portal Freedom for Turkish Academics so far, shows 6.986 scholars have been purged from Turkish universities with several decrees issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and AKP government in wake of July 15, 2016 coup attempt.
Turkey has survived a military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch, the government along with President Erdoğan passed a decree ordering the closure of 15 universities and 800 student dormitories across Turkey. The shutting down of the universities has left 61,382 students in academic limbo.
The same decree and the following ones also ordered the dismissal of thousands of academics working at 108 Turkish universities. Hundreds of these academicians are currently under arrest behind the bars.
According to data published by turkeypurge.com and Freedom for Turkish Academics, the list of the academics who have been sacked and the universities they work for as follows:
Afyon Kocatepe University: 55
Aksaray University: 39
Ankara University: 24
Balıkesir University: 60
Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University: 6
Bülent Ecevit University: 57
Çukurova University: 9
Ege University: 20
İskenderun Technical University: 6
Gazi University: 110
Giresun University: 10
İnönü University: 55
Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University: 80
Gümüşhane University: 17
İstanbul University: 186
Kırklareli University: 19
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University: 20
Kocaeli University: 39
Maltepe University: 1
Ordu University: 6
Tayyip Erdoğan University: 37
Hacı Bektaş Veli University: 12
Turkish German University: 6
Yıldırım Beyazıt University: 34
Bartın University: 32
Kastamonu University: 11
METU: 6
Yeditepe University: 1
Kırıkkale University: 54
Hakkari University: 10
Işık University: 1
Galatasaray University: 1
Celal Bayar University: 128
Bitlis Eren University: 10
Bandırma 17 Eylül University: 9
Ağrı Cecen University: 13
Ardahan University: 4
Fatih University: 514
Abant İzzet Baysal University: 69
Dokuz Eylül University: 12
Erciyes University: 89
İpek University: 119
Murat Hüdavendigar University: 17
Gaziantep University: 105
Katip Çelebi University: 32
Karabük University: 41
Necmettin Erbakan University: 50
Kilis 7 Aralık University: 7
Mardin Artuklu University: 22
Mustafa Kemal University: 94
International Antalya University: 128
Orhan Gazi University: 131
Süleyman Şah University: 98
Şifa University: 271
Selçuk University: 87
Şırnak University: 6
Uludağ University: 13
Yıldız Teknik University: 43
Çankırı Karatekin University: 13
Dicle University: 100
Abdullah Gül University: 15
Ahi Evran University: 10
Amasya University: 5
Artvin Çoruh University: 10
Alanya Alaaddin Keykubad University: 44
Batman University: 2
Bozok University: 81
Cumhuriyet University: 32
Eskişehir O. Gazi University: 13
Dumlupınar University: 32
Gaziosmanpaşa University: 40
Hacettepe University: 65
İzmir High Technology University: 5
Karadeniz Tech. University: 15
Marmara University: 60
Melikşah University: 175
Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University: 32
Mimar Sinan University: 2
Muş Alparslan University: 8
Korkut Ata University: 3
Süleyman Demirel University: 95
Sakarya University: 81
Turgut Özal University: 393
Siirt University: 35
Trakya University: 6
Uşak University: 13
Yüzüncü Yıl University: 25
Harran University: 59
Adana Science and Technology University:2
Bingöl University: 16
Adıyaman University: 47
Akdeniz University: 40
Anadolu University: 20
Atatürk University: 55
Çanakkale 18 Mart University: 67
Bayburt University: 14
Bursa Technical University: 4
Düzce University: 44
İstanbul Medeniyet University: 28
Fırat University: 34
Gebze Technical University: 11
Gediz University: 240
Kahramanoglu M.B University: 3
Hitit University: 29
İstanbul Tec. University: 12
Kafkas University: 10
Mehmet Akif Ersoy University: 12
Mevlana University: 175
Mersin University: 6
Namık Kemal University: 36
Selahaddin Eyyubi University: 80
19 Mayıs University: 39
Pamukkale University: 141
Zirve University: 327
Sinop University: 21
Tunceli University: 20
Yalova University: 41
Erzincan University: 47
Adnan Menderes University: 45
Iğdır University: 9
