Disciplinary Procedures

Provisions of the Law of Higher Education apply to all disciplinary proceedings concerning students in the School of Foreign Languages. Some misconducts that require SFL to take disciplinary actions can be as follows: disrupting an exam/class environment, insulting the instructor or other students, assaulting verbally, cheating and/ or attempting to cheat, and damaging the fixtures. Pursuant to the relevant articles of the Law of Higher Education, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against students who committed the above-mentioned misconducts, by an investigator assigned by the Directorate of SFL. Disciplinary penalties that will apply to the misconducts as specified in the Law of Higher Education are as follows (to get access to the whole text, please visit the website: Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi :

Misconducts that require reprimand

ARTICLE 54/1-a:

2) Disruption of academic studies such as classes, seminars, practices, laboratory practices, workshops, and scientific meetings and conferences;

5) Attempting to cheat in exams.

Misconducts that require suspension from one week to one month

ARTICLE 54/1-b:

1) Disruptive behaviour interfering with the freedom of learning and teaching and/or disrupting the operation and peace of higher education institutions;

3) Allowing another person to use a document issued by the Higher Education Institution which originally grants any kind of right to themselves, or using a document which belongs to another person;

4) Assaulting – verbally or in writing – the honour and dignity of the people in the Higher Education Institution;

5) Assaulting – verbally or in writing – the honour and dignity of the personnel of the Higher Education Institution, both on the premises of and outside the Higher Education Institution.

Misconducts that require suspension for one semester

ARTICLE 54/1-c:

2) Abusing the staff or other students physically;

4) Damaging the buildings, fixtures and such property of the Higher Education Institution, or attacking the information system;

5) Cheating or helping others cheat in exams.

Misconducts that require suspension for two semesters

ARTICLE 54/1-ç:

1) Preventing the staff from conducting their duties by using force and violence against them;

4) Compelling others to help them cheat by threat, interfering with the removal of the cheating students from the exam hall, and having someone else sit for the exam or vice versa.

Repeated Misconducts

ARTICLE 54/2:

a) If a misconduct which has already been disciplined is repeated, a more severe penalty will result.