Dear Students, Faculty Members and Employees

In line with the decisions taken by the Presidency, the Ministry of Health, and the Council of Higher Education, additional measures are taken every day by Rector's Office of our University and new actions are reinforced. 

So far, there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 among students, faculty members, and staff of our university, and we take these measures to protect students, faculty members, and staff.

This website will be updated regularly with the most up-to-date announcements and information. 

Campuses: 

• As of March 23, 2020, 17:00, food, cleaning, transportation, etc. all services in all campuses stopped.
• During the 3-week shut down period starting from March 16, 2020, as announced by the Presidency, the entry of our students, parents and all visitors into the campuses are restricted, except for our academic and administrative staff. A new announcement will be made according to the developments to take place during the 3-week shut down period. You can follow the latest developments about the issue on our website. 
   
• The libraries in all our campuses are closed. Our digital library is open for the use of our students and staff with tens of thousands of e-books, e-magazines, and other electronic resources at https://kutuphane.iku.edu.tr/.
   
• Laboratories in all our campuses have been closed. Students who have built experimental setups in laboratories and need to take urgent action should contact their department/program to provide information on the subject.
   
• Our cleaning, restaurant, dining hall and service staff are specially trained against the COVID-19 and the inspections of food products sold in our campuses, which are conducted by The Directorate of Health, Culture, and Sports and Department of Occupational Health and Safety have been tightened.

Dormitories:

• Dormitories for male and female students will remain open. Our dormitories will remain open for our students and dormitory staff; however, no visitors will be allowed. We pay the utmost attention to cleaning and disinfection against COVID-19, our cleaning staff is specially trained in this regard. 

Teaching - Training and Internship Activities

•  All internships and “internship” activities at the undergraduate and associate degree levels have been suspended. 
   
• The closure applies to students who still participate in internships and applied training for medical & science and engineering programs. 
   
• As of 23 March 2020, undergraduate, undergraduate and graduate courses in CATS ((http://cats.iku.edu.tr/) started to be given as distance education. All the necessary information regarding the distance learning courses will be sent to the e-mail addresses (registered on ORION) of the students by the faculty members via CATS.
    
• The academic calendar including the midterms, final examinations, project deliveries etc. will be determined and announced in line with the decisions taken by the official authorities depending on the developments taking place during the 3-week shut down period. 

International/Domestic Travels 

• All international/domestic travels for all students, faculty, and staff members, including those previously planned, which shall be informed to and subject to the permission of the university, have been suspended until further notice. 
   
• In case a Turkish or a foreign student travels abroad, they will not be allowed to enter the campus and dormitories for at least 14 days upon their return. Besides, the flights of our students who go abroad may be canceled, and our students may encounter different problems upon their arrival depending on how the situation will develop until their return date.
   
• The presidency suspended international travel of government officials to perform their functions or for personal reasons.  In case of compulsory and urgent situations, the request will be sent with the annex of the decision of the University Executive Board, to the Presidency of Council of Higher Education for evaluation, following the Presidential Circular dated 12 March 2020 and numbered 2020/2. 

Please click here to access the circular published in the Official Gazette on the Civil servants' Travels Abroad

• Within the scope of the decisions issued by the Council of Higher Education on March 6, 2020, our students who are abroad and will return to the country will stay home for 14 days and return to the university at the end of the 14th day if they do not show any symptoms such as fever and cough. In line with the decisions taken by the Ministry of Health, they will be deemed to be on administrative leave for 14 days starting from their arrival date, so they must send their passport pages with entry stamp to the following e-mail addresses:

Student: ogrenci.isleri@iku.edu.tr
Staff: ik@iku.edu.tr

Click here for the full text of the YÖK letter dated March 2020, "Recommendations on Measures to be Taken in Higher Education Institutions Regarding the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)." 

Events and Organizations 

• All activities (symposium, conference, concert, Erasmus etc.) in our university are canceled until March 12, 2020, until further notice with the approval of the Rector's Office. 
   
• All academic and social activities including educational activities, academic exchange programs, social activities, cultural trips, sports activities, competitions related to university activities of students have been canceled.

Regulations of Leave of Faculty Members and Staff 

• Excluding the Rector, Vice-Rector, Dean, Institute, Vocational School Directors, those over 60 years of age and older, and pregnant women, and women on maternity leave, people with disabilities and older than 60, except managers, disabled employees, disadvantaged groups determined by the Ministry of Health (those with immune problems, cancer patients, patients with chronic respiratory diseases, obesity and diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, organ transplant patients, chronic patients) taking part in our academic and administrative staff will be deemed to be on administrative leave for twelve days starting from March 16, 2020.
   
• Annual leave requests of our female academic and administrative staff members with children in preschool and primary school will be approved, and they will take a compassionate leave if they are not entitled to annual leave. 
   
• Action will be taken in accordance with the legislation in force with respect to the leave requests of our other academic and administrative staff, 
   
• In line with the abovementioned definitions, all of our faculty and staff members who will take the leave must fill in the leave application form. 

Click here for F.A.Q. about COVID-19