Erdoğan Teziç

Erdoğan Teziç (* 1936 in Istanbul ; † April 23, 2017 there ) was a Turkish legal scholar and President of the University Council (YÖK).

Life

Erdoğan Teziç attended the Galatasaray High School in İstanbul until 1955 . In 1959 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of İstanbul . Between 1962 and 1965, Teziç wrote his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Law at the Sorbonne in Paris . He then worked as an assistant in the Constitutional Law Department of the Faculty of Law at the University of İstanbul until 1970 . In 1970 Erdoğan Teziç became a lecturer in constitutional law, in 1980 professor of constitutional law and between 1982 and 1999 he was chairman of the department for constitutional law at the same faculty. From 1993 to 2000 Teziç was Deputy Rector of Galatasaray University and Director of Galatasaray High School. Between 1999 and 2001 he was a legal advisor in the Presidential Office of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey . From 2000 Teziç was rector of Galatasaray University. On December 8, 2003, the then President of the Republic of Turkey appointed him President of the University Council (Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu, YÖK) , which he held until December 8, 2007.

On September 17, 2004 Erdoğan Teziç received the Order of the Legion of Honor in the commander class . However, Teziç gave up the award after the French parliament passed a law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide . In the letter that Teziç sent to Jacques Chirac , he stated: “Dear Mr President, it is clear from statements that this law is supported by certain parliamentarians, but not by the French government. But from your recent state visit to Armenia, during which you accused the Turks of genocide against the Armenians, it is clear that this issue is French state policy. "

Web links

 Wikinews: Turkish University Council President returned French award  - message

• Prof. Dr. Erdoğan Teziç (1936 -…) . Biography on "Kim Kimdir?" (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erdoğan Teziç hayatını kaybetti. In: Hürriyet . April 23, 2017, Retrieved April 30, 2017 (Turkish).