PAU Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak Thesis Award Given 7th Time

Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kutluhan, Koçak Family, Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Durmuş Akalın, Dean of PAU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Prof. Dr. Ender Coşkun, faculty members and students attended the event held at PAU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences A Block Şehit Bekir Can Kerek Conference Hall.

After the moment of silence and the reading of the National Anthem, the biography of the late PAU FEAS Political Science and Public Administration faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak was read and a short video prepared in his memory was shown. The program continued with the speech of Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Aliyar Demirci, Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration, who gave information about the competition, and the speech of Prof. Dr. Durmuş Akalın, Vice Rector and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences.

Rector Kutluhan: “This award may become the Nobel Prize of PAU in the future.”

Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kutluhan stated the following in his speech at the program: “Our late Professor Yaman was a very successful scientist, as his name suggests. His spirit is still here at our university. It is really great that his family organized such an award ceremony. Since I came here, I have been saying that social sciences are social sciences. Yes, seeing such a success of social sciences made me very happy as the Rector. I would like to thank Mr. Koçak family for their share in this happiness. If there is an award, there is a competition. If there is competition, there is science. If there is science, there is life. If there is life, there is guidance. We say that the most important feature of our university is to be a guide for life. How will we achieve this? We will create many reasons. One of these reasons has been created very well, and the seventh one is being held. May God rest his soul. I wish he was among us; we would have witnessed his TÜBİTAK awards, his international awards, we would have witnessed if he had received the TÜBA award, but I think this is something more valuable than that. In the future, it may become the Nobel of Pamukkale University. As a university, Aliyar Hocam, we definitely need to support this. It needs to become widespread. As you said before, we need to include all universities in this competition by giving this award a national dimension, especially ADIM Universities. This is a fire of science that has been lit and cannot be extinguished. We will follow this. I would like to congratulate all the professors who contributed, the professors who organized the competition, the theses competing here, the research assistants and graduate students who did those theses. Thank you very much. I am experiencing one of my happy days today. Thank you, thank you.”

After the speech of Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kutluhan, the program was opened by Prof. Dr. Ender Coşkun, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, who served as the jury member of the competition; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mısra Ciğeroğlu Öztepe, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mısra Ciğeroğlu Öztepe and Dr. Rezzan Ayhan Türkbay, who were the jury members of the competition. While the advisor of the award-winning thesis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur Kulaç, was presented the certificate of appreciation and plaque by Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Durmuş Akalın, the owner of the award-winning thesis, Kayseri Hacılar District Governor Burak Dertlioğlu, was presented the certificate of appreciation and plaque by Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kutluhan. Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kutluhan also presented flowers to the Koçak family in memory of the day.

His thesis advisor was PAU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur Kulaç and his thesis was titled as 'Analyzing Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation (SYDV) Policies in Turkey: Denizli/Çal Case', which won Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak Most Successful Master's Thesis Award, Kayseri Hacılar District Governor Burak Dertlioğlu made a brief information presentation about his thesis.

Before the informative presentation, Havva Hanım, the mother of the late Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak, read the letter addressed to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak by Assoc. Dr. Onur Kulaç, a faculty member of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the advisor of the award-winning thesis. Mrs. Havva stated that everyone who is worthy of the award by following the path of her deceased son in their studies is now a 'Yaman' for her. Havva Koçak, mother of the late Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak, and Nurullah Koçak, father of the late Assoc. Dr. Süleyman Yaman Koçak, congratulated the advisor of the award-winning thesis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur Kulaç, and the winner of the thesis award, Burak Dertlioğlu, and presented the award to Dertlioğlu.