Will the Boğaziçi Rector be eliminated by SMS voting?

How beautiful you are, Turkey...

Admired by those looking from the outside, exhausting for those living within.

Even the British Foreign Office couldn't take it anymore and updated its travel advice, saying, "If you go to Turkey, be careful about such and such issues." I mean, we aren't the ones saying it; they are. They are issuing warnings to their own citizens: "Do not take unlicensed taxis, do not drink counterfeit alcohol, do not get involved in protests, do not walk around without identification."

It's like a joke, isn't it?

No, and most of these warnings would actually be appropriate for our own citizens too, but who cares?

Take this: Before a British tourist comes to Turkey, they have to memorize: "Note the license plate, check if the taximeter is running, don't drink fake alcohol, run if you encounter a protest, don't forget your ID."

In other words, being a tourist here isn't a sightseeing trip; it's practically a survival camp.

Speaking of "Survivor"...

Yes, the real Survivor is starting now. And as the name suggests: "The Boğaziçi Finale."

Not a competition, but a finale of disgrace!

Boğaziçi University's Anadolu Hisarı Campus is hosting not make-up exams or English proficiency tests this year, but Acun's palm-tree-lined obstacle course.

Bravo! This must be what they mean by an aesthetic touch in education.

So, while young people sweat over their exams, there will be cheering for the candidate to be chosen as the winner by public vote on the university campus.

While students at Boğaziçi cannot find dorms to stay in, a special area is being prepared for the contestants.

In short, the university has the name, but the students are just extras!

University professors are rebelling: "They didn't know how to commercialize the university," they say.

You are mistaken, professor.

They knew, and they knew very well!

Didn't they bring in that social media personality who is anti-woman and anti-secularism to give a talk before?

Now they have succeeded by emptying the inside of the university and setting up a stage on the outside.

They succeeded by turning a campus that has produced science for years into a ticketed reality show venue.

So, someone is sitting in the rector's chair, but the button they press for "vision" leads directly to a ratings-driven channel.

Boğaziçi, once cited among the world's top 500 universities, is now looking for a place among the top 5 in prime time.

We have become a school open not to master's degree applications, but to SMS voting.

I mean, applications will soon be made not through YÖK, but through Exxen!

Who else will this university be opened to?

To the student knocking on its door for science, or to the contestant coming for a "challenge"?

And unfortunately...

Boğaziçi is no longer a school; it is a background.

It was a brand, now it is a decoration.

Instead of a diploma, they are printing "finale tickets."

The island isn't the one losing the competition, the university is the losing side.

And those who remain silent, those who get used to it, and those who accept it are watching this the most...

Just like the British tourist taking "precautions" before getting into an unlicensed taxi, should we wear "helmets" before entering the campus?