denied the allegations and stated that the allegations were "Utterly false and that no such thing has occurred and nothing can be substantiated". A spokesman for the Worker's union said they were not aware of that particular faculty member's situation, but had experienced similar problems concerning other faculty members. In the second article, the newspaper reported about the penalizing of a British Faculty member, who was removed from the position of department chair for undisclosed reasons. The faculty member declined to comment, as did the university administration. On 9 September 2009, Eastern Mediterranean University's rector was dismissed by the University Senate. The university's board of trusties unanimously ratified the decision on 11 September. No reason was ever given publicly for the dismissal, as the rector was replaced by Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak. The rector's dismissal was finally declared illegal by the Supreme Administrative Court on 14 July 2010. On 13 March 2011, The Upper Supreme Administrative Court rejected the decision of the lower Supreme Administrative Court and decided that the rector of Eastern Mediterranean University is Abdullah Y. Öztoprak. Affiliations The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association. Notable people Buğra Gülsoy - Actor Ebru Polat - Singer Mehmet Muş - MP in Turkey Nancy D. Erbe - Distinguished Fulbright Scholar (visited and taught in 2009) Bülent Turan - MP in Turkey References External links EMU Blog Eastern Mediterranean University Engineering universities and colleges Technical universities and colleges in Cyprus Education in the European Union Univ. Educational institutions established in 1979 English as a global language 1979 establishments in Cyprus Organisations based in Northern Cyprus Buildings and structures in Famagusta