Institutional Reasons behind the Persistence of the Canon

In Turkey, higher education is supervised by the Council of Higher Education (yök in Turkish, for Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu), established after the military coup of 1980. For at least a generation, yök has been an emblem of the loss of academic freedom and autonomy. The yök Student Selection and Placement Centre organizes the country-wide examinations that determine admission to university programs. They are among the most crucial events of the year for 1.5 million students and their families. So...