{"id":8679,"date":"2025-04-15T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:49:36","slug":"turak-renews-thm-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8679","title":{"rendered":"TURAK Renews THM Accreditation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 26, the Tourism Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (TURAK), the sole Y\u00d6K-authorized agency to accredit tourism-related higher education programs in T\u00fcrkiye, awarded the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management (THM) a full six-year renewal of its existing accreditation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The renewal process was nearly one year long and included the preparation of a detailed, over 300-page status report and a three-day on-site evaluation by TURAK team members. The successful completion of the accreditation renewal was marked by an official award-conferring ceremony at the Rector\u2019s office on March 26.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Headed by the Vice President of TURAK, \u0130brahim Birkan, TURAK\u2019s committee visited the university and met with Rector K\u00fcr\u015fat Aydo\u011fan, along with Faculty of Applied Sciences Dean Prof. H. Altay G\u00fcvenir, Assoc. Dean Ay\u015fe Keens, THM Department Chair Jamel Ben Chafra, Asst. Prof. Semih Y\u0131lmaz and Gamze Tek\u00e7e.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, the Tourism Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (TURAK), the sole Y\u00d6K-authorized agency to accredit tourism-related higher education programs in T\u00fcrkiye, awarded the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management (THM) a full six-year renewal of its existing accreditation.&nbsp;&nbsp; The renewal process was nearly one year long and included<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8679\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,189,164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679"}],"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=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}