It was my biggest dream to pursue an academic career at the university.

Lecturing, learning new things, being with young people were my favorite moments.

Publishing an article in a magazine or publishing a book from a publishing house would not replace my happiness.

None of these could be measured in money.

I have always experienced these in the university where I worked for ten years.

Those ten years were the best moments of my life.

But this is life.

Things don't always go the way you want them to.

Life is not sometimes, but always compares you with surprises.

I had to leave the university for various reasons.

More accurately, I was forced to leave the university.

In the year I finished my doctorate, I was an academic who fulfilled the minimum criteria required by UAK for associate professorship.

In this state, I applied for the Associate Professorship exam as a lecturer.

While I expected to lose five zeros, I failed by a three-two majority.

This result was an honorable defeat for me.

I was put on hold for six years after my doctorate.

They did not give me my rightful Assistant Professor position.

They alienated me from the university I love so much with the investigations.

And I left.

For about eight years, I have been trying my best to do my best in the TUIK Regional Directorate.

I will never give up chasing my dreams, I will never give up.

I have a very busy work schedule at TÜİK.

In the midst of this intensity, I applied to associate professorship again in 2010.

After being away from the academic environment for eight years, frankly, I had hesitations about applying.

It was worth my dreams and I made my decision and applied.

A reasonable juror turned out.

I didn't know any of them, but those who knew said so.

I prepared my files with excitement.

I took a lot of extra time.

The elders I talked to said that I should work on the oral language slowly.

But I thought it wouldn't be right for me to make a preparation before the official results were announced.

Come time go time I was looking forward to each passing day.

I was checking the UAK's website at least five or six times a day.

When I entered the site on August 9, 2011, exactly eighteen months after the application, I encountered the result of 3/5 SUCCESSFUL.

On September 29, 2011, I was called for an oral exam at Istanbul Aydın University FEAS at 10:00.

I involuntarily applauded myself.

I shared the result with my loved ones.

I shared my joy face-to-face, by phone, by mail.

Since my friends more or less knew about my dreams, everyone was as happy as I was with this result.

Yes, a new process, a new excitement had begun for me.

Now I had to start serious preparations.

Because I had to go completely before that five-person juror.

First, I scanned the academic field of the jury members and gathered a lot of academic information about them.

Secondly, I ordered dozens of books on the internet regarding the interests of the members of the jury.

I bought my round-trip flight tickets to stay in Istanbul for four days.

I made a reservation for accommodation.

I went shopping with my dearest friends.

I bought a suit with everything from cufflinks to socks.

Everything had to be complete.

I did all this within 3-4 hours after the result was announced.

When I got home in the evening, I took out all the marketing books on the bottom shelves of my library.

I slowly started turning the pages.

Until I received the official letter on August 16, 2011.

Because we are the head of the institution.

When we receive a document, we immediately look at the format.

Is it compatible with the cover letter, appendices, etc.?

There was no problem in the above post.

As announced on the internet, the result was 3/5 positive and I was invited to speak in Istanbul on September 29, 2011.

However, when I examined the attachments of the cover letter, I saw something strange.

Three positives in the top post

Although two negative opinions were mentioned, three of the five personal reports in the appendix were negative and two were positive.

It went weird and I called an academician of my elder.

He also stated that it was very strange, that similar situations had happened before, that I had to go and take my exam as if nothing had happened.

But this option did not put me at ease.

I talked to an administrator from YÖK.

He asked for my documents, I faxed them.

When he returned to me half an hour later, the truth came out.

There had been a mistake.

The cover letter should have failed 2/5, but it was mistakenly written 3/5.

A new cover letter would be written and delivered to me in a few days.

For YÖK or UAK, it was that simple.

"SEHVEN"!!!

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My body chemistry was messed up.

It was as if a truck had passed over me.

Something had happened to me.

I trembled, trembled, trembled...

Then I stopped and came back to myself.

I told you at first.

This is life, he did it again.

I love this life so much for that.

I've had so many surprises until today that I wonder what surprises I'll have from now on?

What did the thinker say?

"Everything is either beautiful in itself, or