Yeni Yol’lu Selçuk Özdağ: “The academician lives below the poverty line, this silence accelerates the collapse”

New Path Party Group Vice President and Muğla Deputy Assoc.

"Poverty limit 78 thousand TL, research assistant salary 60 thousand" "
In his speech based on Türk-İş data, Özdağ emphasized that the poverty limit of a family of four is 78.292 TL, and that a new research assistant received only 60 thousand TL salary.

"Academy is now economically punished"
In 1990, 59 grams of gold can be taken with a salary of a professor today, indicating that this amount has fallen half of the Özdağ, "An academician now has to make a scientific publication and the child has to make a choice between taking shoes," he said.

"The scientist either translates or collects his suitcase"
Expressing that the research assistants had to do additional work, live with their family or go abroad, Özdağ said, “This system rewarded loyalty, not merit. So science is not produced, thought is silenced,” he said.

"Davutoglu hike had been breathing into the world of science"
Özdağ stated that the salary regulation made by the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in 2014 had the effect of “life simidi” in the academy community and that the improvement made that day has lost its effect today.

"Double standard in retirement: General 72, Academician 67"
Özdağ stated that the generals found that the generals found the retirement age positively with the law proposal submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly, “So, why do you not recognize the same right to the academician?

"Merit based system should be brought back"
Emphasizing that the faculty staff such as ÖYP should be revitalized, Özdağ said that the abolition of torpedo should be removed and the most intelligent, most talented, most merit names should be brought to universities.

Kaynak: CUMHA - CUMHUR HABER AJANSI