İzmir Democracy University () is a

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. It was established by the

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on 20 August 2016 with other 3 new universities. İzmir Democracy University was cited by the press as the successor of

İzmir University İzmir University () was a university in the Üçkuyular neighborhood of Karabağlar, a metropolitan district of İzmir, Turkey. It was established in 2007 by the Doğanata Education and Culture Foundation, which opened in 2008. On 23 July 2016 ...

, which was closed private university by Turkish government on 23 July 2016. But the Council of Higher Education denied it and explained that İzmir Democracy University was not founded in place of İzmir University. In January 2017, President

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appointed Prof. Dr. Bedriye Tunçsiper as the rector of the university. On June 10, 2020, with a protocol signed with the Ministry of Health,

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started to be used jointly with the university's medical faculty.

Organization

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Faculties

*Faculty of Education *Faculty of Law *Faculty of Science and Literature *Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences *Faculty of Fine Arts *Faculty of Engineering *Faculty of Architecture *Faculty of Medical Sciences *Faculty of Medicine *Faculty of Dentistry

Institutes

*Institute of Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering *Institute of Social Sciences *Institute of Medical Sciences

Other schools

*School of Foreign Languages *Vocational School of Health Services *Vocational School

References

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