{"id":11110,"date":"2026-08-07T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:27:16","slug":"orhan-aytur-assumes-office-as-acting-rector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11110","title":{"rendered":"Orhan Ayt\u00fcr Assumes Office as Acting Rector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orhan_aytur_20260730-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11112\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orhan_aytur_20260730-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orhan_aytur_20260730-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orhan_aytur_20260730-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orhan_aytur_20260730-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orhan_aytur_20260730-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon the recommendation of the Board of Trustees and with the approval of the Council of Higher Education, Orhan Ayt\u00fcr assumed the position of Acting Rector of Bilkent University on 28 July 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the new administrative structure, Ezhan Kara\u015fan was appointed Provost, H\u00fcseyin Boyac\u0131 was appointed Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, Emin Karag\u00f6zo\u011flu was appointed Vice Rector for Student Affairs, and Sinan Atalar was appointed Secretary General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emine \u00dclk\u00fc Sar\u0131ta\u015f will continue to serve as Associate Provost, while Emel \u00d6zdora will continue in her role as Advisor to the Rector for Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bilkent University wishes all members of its new leadership team success in their responsibilities and will continue to build on its tradition of excellence in education, research, and service to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the recommendation of the Board of Trustees and with the approval of the Council of Higher Education, Orhan Ayt\u00fcr assumed the position of Acting Rector of Bilkent University on 28 July 2026. As part of the new administrative structure, Ezhan Kara\u015fan was appointed Provost, H\u00fcseyin Boyac\u0131 was appointed Vice<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11110\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,4,225,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11113,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions\/11113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}