The holiday ceremony, made traditional by Afyon Kocatepe University (AKU), was held at AKÜ Social Facilities. Speaking at the ceremony, Rector Karakaş said, “The construction of AFRAY has started and continues rapidly. "It is planned to be completed within a year." AKÜ Rector Prof. attended the event. Dr. In addition to Mehmet Karakaş, Vice Rectors Prof. Dr. Şuayip Özdemir and Prof. Dr. Murat Peker, institute directors, faculty deans, college and vocational school principals, General Secretary İhsan Ceran and academic and administrative staff attended. Making a speech before the celebration, AKÜ Rector Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karakaş congratulated the academic and administrative staff on their holiday and wished them to have peaceful and healthy new holidays.
“FEASTS STRENGTHEN THE FEELING OF BROTHERHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP”
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karakaş, holidays; He stated that it strengthened the feelings of unity, solidarity, brotherhood, friendship and family ties and carried these important values to the future. Karakaş stated that he wishes Afyon Kocatepe University staff to have the highest sense of belonging to their institution, in working peace and tranquility, and this has been achieved to a significant extent since 2019. Karakaş stated that he has been serving at the Afyon Kocatepe University Rectorate since 2019 and said that all staff contributed to the development of the university. In his speech, Karakaş gave information about new projects and continued his words as follows: “We made some innovations within the current organizational structure of our university this year. In this context, we created R&D and Scientific Publication coordinators and made appointments. Again, our coordination work regarding internationalization and our graduates has reached its final stage. “Our coordinatorships will serve in our Rectorate building.”
“IMPROVEMENT WORKS CONTINUE IN EVERY AREA”
Karakaş reminded that infrastructure renovation works in IT and other physical spaces are continuing rapidly and said that improvement works are continuing urgently in all areas. Karakaş also noted the following about other projects: “We completed Turkey's most equipped animal hospital, suitable for a human hospital, and put it into service with a ceremony. The construction of our Faculty of Theology continues rapidly. We plan to put it into service at the beginning of the next academic year. The construction of AFRAY, the light rail system that will connect our campus to the city center, under the responsibility of our Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, has started and continues rapidly. It is planned to be completed within a year. "Instead of 19 trees, 83 of which are dried, on the road where AFRAY will pass, 2 trees, each around 550 meters tall, will be planted in different parts of our campus." Prof. Dr. Karakaş also gave detailed information about the afforestation works that will be carried out within the ANS Campus in the coming days. The celebration ceremony was attended by academic and administrative staff, especially Rector Prof. Dr. It ended after congratulations with Mehmet Karakaş and AKÜ Board Members one by one.