Assoc. Prof. Meltem Kayıran dismissed again
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The Rector's Office of Ankara University has once again dismissed Assoc. Prof. Meltem Kayıran, a faculty member from the university's Faculty of Political Sciences Department of Public Finance.
Not appointed by the Rector's Office, Kayıran was dismissed from the university on April 9. Kayıran filed a lawsuit against this decision. The Ankara 4th Administrative Court gave a decision of stay of execution on June 30 and ruled that the academic should be reinstated.
Putting the court ruling of reinstatement into force with a 1.5-month delay, the Rector's Office reinstated Kayıran in his position with her former staff on August 13. The Office also appealed to the upper court.
Upon the appeal of the Rector's Office, the Ankara Regional Administrative Court lifted the stay of execution. As reported by Mülkiye Haber, the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Political Sciences sent the academic a written notification, informing her that she would be dismissed from the university as of the end of the business day yesterday (September 1).
The notification signed by Dean Orhan Çelik has referred to the decision of the upper court and said that the appointment of the academic to the staff of doctor lecturers has been cancelled by the Rector's Office.
What happened?
In 2017, Meltem Kayıran assumed the title of associate professor, but she was subjected to the criteria of a lower administrative staff and asked to submit a file. Kayıran did not submit the file on the grounds that the request was unlawful. The university dismissed her on April 14.
The Education and Science Laborers' Union (Eğitim-Sen), of which Assoc. Prof. Kayıran is a member, filed a lawsuit against this decision. The Ankara 4th Administrative Court ruled for her reinstatement.
In its decision, the administrative court referred to the Article 6 of the Regulations on "Appointment to the Staff of Doctor Lecturers" and concluded that a file should be requested from an academic in case it was his or her first appointment to the staff of doctor lecturers.
Considering that Kayıran was not a person appointed for the first time to the related staff and that she made an application for reappointment, the court ruled that it should be inquired whether the academic was successful in her job, rather than whether she met the requirements, which is a condition sought in first appointments to the related position. (KÖ/SD)