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Atilla Yayla

Atilla Yayla (, born ), is a Turkish political thinker and a proponent of liberal democracy. He is one of the founders of Association for Liberal Thinking in Turkey. He was Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey. After his retirement from the public sector in 2009, Yayla became head of the International Relations department at Faculty of Commercial Sciences of Istanbul Commerce University until he was fired in 2015. In 2016 he was fired from his teaching post at Haliç University, after the University administration was charged with corruption and turned over to Istanbul University by The Council of Higher Education (YÖK). Yayla lost the case against Haliç University administration in 2019 and was ordered to pay the court fees.

He is currently a faculty member at the Political Science and Public Administration Department of Istanbul Medipol University.

Yayla also wrote articles in the 1980s for the magazine ''Yeni Forum'', and later in the 2000s and 2010s for daily newspapers ''Zaman'', ''Yeni Şafak'', and ''Yeni Yüzyıl''. Provided by Wikipedia