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Greek-American Michael Kratsios has been chosen by Donald Trump to fill the role of Director for Science and Technology Policy in the new administration that will take office in January.

Four Greek universities - the Democritus University of Thrace, University of the Aegean, University of Western Macedonia, and Hellenic Mediterranean University - are forging partnerships with prestigious global institutions like Columbia, Boston, the Sorbonne, and the University of Zurich.

Her music is described as an ode to joy by the international press, and her voice is considered a gem for jazz, soul, and R&B.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has condemned Western nations and their universities for their treatment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

"They taught us democracy for years, but we all saw how those who make these judgments behaved on the Gaza issue," Erdoğan said during an event in the capital Ankara on Oct. 8.

A big bang in the secondary, tertiary and post-secondary education sectors is being pursued by the government.

In mid-April of this year, Columbia University, a distinguished member of the Ivy League alongside institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, became the epicenter of significant student protests triggered by the conflict in Gaza, which claimed thousands of civilian lives, including many children.

Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Tel Aviv, Tunis: The list of cities where New York's Columbia University has developed its so-called Global Centers is indeed impressive - and it just became even longer, with the addition of Athens. 

The total annual cost of tuition and fees at four-year American colleges and universities has more than tripled over the past 60 years, from an average of $5,369 annually in 1963 to $17,709 in 2023, according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.

The support extended to Israel during the Gaza war has sparked widespread protests across U.S. universities, underscoring both the potency of student activism in influencing Washington's actions and its symbolic resonance in aligning with "the right side of history," Turkish students in the U.S. have expressed.