Istanbul’s Koç University dean angrily confronts student in argument

A video showing a Koç University dean confronting students complaining about various issues and angrily walking up to one is widely shared on social media.

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The dean of Istanbul’s Koç University, Baha Yiğit Sayın, has angrily confronted a student on campus as he was surrounded by other students demanding female and male students should not sit separately in refectories.  

A video that was widely shared on Twitter shows Sayın first listening to the students and their demands and later walking up to a student, Erkin Başar, angrily, saying, “What the hell are you saying?”

The students of Koç University were complaining about plans for a gender-segregated cafeteria, the installation of cameras at dorms, a mixed-gender dorm being made a girls-only one and other issues, including expensive meals and events banned on campus.

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