Youth and Sports Minister Suat Kılıç made the rumors clear explaining that participants of Gezi Park protests will not be cutt off the student loans
Recently there were allegations going on that students who participated in Gezi Park protests will not be given loans. On this, Youth and Sports Minister Suat Kılıç has refuted allegations that university students who participated in the Gezi Park protests will not be eligible for loans granted by the Higher Education Loans and Dormitories Institution (KYK) affiliated with the ministry.
“News that scholarships or loans granted to university students who participated in Gezi Park protests will be cut are complete lies and products of the imagination,” Kılıç said in a message posted to his Twitter account late on July 30.
“The regulation shown as the basis of the news was passed in 1997. That is to say, before the liars even knew the location of Gezi Park,” he added.
News reports were based on a document published on July 29, enumerating the preconditions for the 2013-2014 academic year. It stated that those who engage in “protests, boycotts, occupations, vandalism in public spaces, chanting slogans and alike,” will not be eligible for student loans, as such activity constitutes a “violation of the right to an education,” according to the KYK.
Questions were raised with many speculating that an article banning such student behavior had been inserted as a result of the Gezi Park protests. However, even before the recent protests it was the governmet policy and included in the regulation much before the Gezi Park events.
Turkey Tribune
