İzmir Democracy University ( tr, İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi) is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private unive ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. It was established by the

Grand National Assembly of Turkey The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament ( tr, or ''Parlamento''), is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Const ...

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 ( tr, İzmir Üniversitesi) 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 ...

, 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.

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

Universities and colleges in İzmir State universities and colleges in Turkey Educational institutions established in 2016 2016 establishments in Turkey {{Turkey-university-stub