Let me give you some information about Ipek University which was closed down in a day, without any questions asked or any pretext, and which then became an office for the wife of Numan Kurtulmus, who is known as a pious man.
It is a Fine Arts university built without any privileges from the government and without any financial help from outside the KozaIpek group. Nearly all the students at the university are there on a scholarship, and it is a source of great honour for Turkey.
It is a project of the century, where one day, its brilliant students who passed their exams on their own merits, and the highly-esteemed academic staff with their international reputations were thrown out.
IT’S TURKEY’S WORLD PROJECT WHICH PASSED ALL THE INSPECTIONS BY YOK.
Not everyone knows, that there are 33 ‘In the name of God, the Merciful and the Compassionate’ inscriptionsaround the upper side of the high lanterns around the campus.
They total 3, 333 in number inside and outside the campus.
There are places of worship allocated for students of other faiths to be able to perform their religious duties in comfort by the big masjids.
The students at Ipek know that they are not worthy of any respect if they are not respectful to others.
You may make it an office for yourself, your family. You may make it into a shopping centre or a residential building and make money out of it.
But this won’t be for long.
There are intimate prayers I made while building it.
As there is an owner of all, there is an owner there, too.
Don’t forget my friend,
Life is a story written without a rubber.
Today it is written, tomorrow it will be read.
Both you and I are waiting…