YOK submits shortlist of Istanbul University rector candidates to President Gul

The Board of Higher Education (YOK) yesterday submitted to President Abdullah Gul for final selection its shortlist of rector candidates for Istanbul University, Turkey's oldest university. The board cut down to three a list of six candidates chosen by a university faculty vote. At the top of the list was Professor Yunus Soylet, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's family physician, who was also selected by Gul to serve on YOK. Soylet got the second-highest number of faculty votes. Professor Ali Akyuz, the top vote-getter, was second on the list, and Professor Melih Boydak was third. In the faculty elections, Akyuz got 483 votes, while Soylet got 467 and Boydak 365.