A vehicle for every seat at Boğaziçi University: Exact number hidden, total cost 39.1 million TL!
It has emerged that a vehicle has been allocated for almost every official position at Boğaziçi University. It was learned that 39.1 million TL was spent on a 'personnel transport and vehicle rental' contract signed last month. The details of the contract were not shared.
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While the pressures and staffing policies of the appointed administration continue at Boğaziçi University, 'arbitrary' public spending also persists.
A vehicle has been allocated for almost every high-level 'seat'.
According to information obtained by Mehmet Baran Kılıç from PolitikYol, the allocated vehicles are as follows:
Rectorate: 2024 model Volvo passenger vehicle and 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
General Secretariat: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
Vice Rectors: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle (2 units)
Deputy General Secretaries: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle (2 units)
Department of Information Technology: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
Department of Construction and Technical Works: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
Department of Administrative and Financial Affairs: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
Department of Health, Culture and Sports: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
Rector's Advisors: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle and 2023 model Fiat passenger vehicle
Kandilli Campus Administration: 2024 model Skoda passenger vehicle
Furthermore, according to the information obtained, vehicles were even allocated to some branch managers working under department heads, in addition to the department heads themselves.
According to the Law on Vehicles, vehicle allocation is only permitted for rectors.
A TOGG WAS ALSO PURCHASED
Naci İnci had announced in September 2023 that they had purchased a TOGG TX10 as an official vehicle.
Making a statement on the subject via his Twitter account, İnci said, "We have taken delivery of the TOGG TX10, our university's new official vehicle. I wish for Turkey's first domestic and national automobile, our pride TOGG, to be beneficial to Boğaziçi University."
Boğaziçi University had rented 33 vehicles, 16 of which were passenger cars, for 5.8 million liras in a tender held in March 2023. The university administration signed a new contract last month under the name of 'personnel transport and vehicle rental' for 39.1 million liras, but the technical specifications of the tender were not published. For this reason, it is unknown how many vehicles were rented.
The administration also held another tender today under the same name, shortly after last month's tender.
The result of the tender in question has not yet been announced.
Boğaziçi University has recently been granting positions to individuals who have served as high-level administrators in AKP municipalities.
For example, Nihat Mutlu, who served as deputy mayor at Beykoz Municipality during the AKP era, was appointed as the Head of the Department of Administrative and Financial Affairs at Boğaziçi University, and another deputy mayor, Engin Köklü, was brought in as the head of the university's construction and technical works department. Beykoz Municipality had passed from the AKP to the CHP in the March 31 elections.
Ramazan Kesik, who began working at İSKİ during the AKP era, was also appointed as the Head of the Department of Health, Culture and Sports.
Vahap Doğan, a former member of the Ensar Foundation board of trustees who served as deputy mayor in the AKP-run Pendik Municipality between 2019 and 2024, was appointed as deputy general secretary.
The individuals in other positions also consist of people close to the administration.