İzmir University ( tr, İzmir Üniversitesi) was a university in the Üçkuyular neighborhood of

Karabağlar Karabağlar is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey. It is one of the metropolitan districts of İzmir. Karabağlar was turned into a district by the Cabinet of Turkey The Cabinet of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Kabinesi) or Presidential Cabine ...

, a metropolitan district of

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. It was established in 2007 by the Doğanata Education and Culture Foundation, which opened in 2008. On 23 July 2016, in the course of the

2016 Turkish purges Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film ...

, the university was closed by the Turkish government due to its alleged ties with the

Gülen movement The Gülen movement ( tr, Gülen hareketi), referred to by its participants as Hizmet ("service") or Cemaat ("community") and since 2016 by the Government of Turkey as FETÖ ("Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation" or, more commonly, "Fethullah T ...

. The staff of the university rejected the accusations.

Faculties

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences consisted of four departments: * Department of Business Administration * Department of Political Science and Administration * Department of International Relations * Department of Trade and Finance

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences consisted of four departments: * Department of American Culture and Literature * Department of English Language Teaching * Department of Psychology * Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering consisted of four departments: * Department of Computer Engineering * Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering * Department of Software Engineering * Department of Industrial Engineering

Faculty of Architecture

The Faculty of Engineering consisted of two departments: * Dept. of Architecture * Dept. of Interior Arch. and Envir.

Faculty of Law

School of Health

The School of Health consisted of two departments: * Department of Nursing * Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

School of Foreign Languages

Vocational School

The university's vocational school offered courses in: * Computer Programming * Child Development * Accounting and Tax App. * Electronics and Tel. Tech. * Tourism and Hotel Management * Tourism and Travel Management

Institutes

* Institute of Engineering and Physical Sciences * Institute of Social Sciences

References

External links

* Private universities and colleges in Turkey Universities and colleges in İzmir Educational institutions established in 2007 2007 establishments in Turkey Educational institutions shut down in the 2016 Turkish purges Defunct universities and colleges in Turkey {{Turkey-university-stub