This is a list of educational institutions that were shut down in the course of the
2016 Turkish purges.
On 23 July 2016, President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions in his first emergency decree under the newly adopted
emergency legislation.[1]
Universities
The following fifteen private universities, many of them allegedly affiliated to the
Gülen movement, were shut down:
This is a list of educational institutions that were shut down in the course of the
2016 Turkish purges.
On 23 July 2016, President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions in his first emergency decree under the newly adopted
emergency legislation.[1]
Universities
The following fifteen private universities, many of them allegedly affiliated to the
Gülen movement, were shut down: