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Turkey has a controversial new Central Bank Governor, Murat Uysal. He’s about to get a lot more controversial. His entire English Masters thesis was plagiarised and this thread will walk you through how he copied and pasted it all.pic.twitter.com/iuzLUc8tWu
In the interests of me not plagiarising, the first person to notice this was @fkkizilca, although he pointed out paragraphs that were taken from one article. It turns out the entire thing was nabbed from three articles. Two of which were written by former Turkish CB staff...
The three articles were as follows: Mishkin (2000), “Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Countries”, Kadıoğlu et al (2000), “Inflation Targeting in Developing Countries” and Altınkemer (2001), “How Did They Manage the Floating Crisis?”.
Links for all three are here: Mishkin - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4467/ce86d3444ef05d349d382ffd14994fd79e85.pdf … Kadıoğlu et al - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/7061368.pdf … Altınkemer - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.555.8610&rep=rep1&type=pdf …
You can find Governor Murat Uysal’s thesis if you go to https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/giris.jsp … and search his name. You need to download the PDF from 2001. The English summary is at the back so scroll down to the end.
So let’s start. The opening of the English part of Central Bank Governor’s masters thesis is straight up ripped from Mishkin. The language is authoritative and compelling. That’s because it’s entirely Mishkin’s words.pic.twitter.com/uQHxpOfHnd
The new Governor of the Turkish Central Bank keeps lifting from Mishkin for a while. Note that this is word for word and there are no footnotes or citations. Mishkin is in the bibliography but this is not a great start. It's about to get worse.pic.twitter.com/lVZ3J5DiHW
The new Governor moves to another article, this time by Kadıoğlu et al, three authors who all worked for the Central Bank at the time. I do wonder whether any of them remain because that would be AWKWARD.pic.twitter.com/0k6xwdJ3e5
The next few pages are pure copy and paste from the Kadıoğlu article. Take a look yourself – after a while I got bored screenshoting. The Governor apparently did not get bored of copying and pasting.pic.twitter.com/DAPUbT00OP
More from Kadığolu et al. This goes on for a few pages. Note that their article is at least cited in the bibliography but there are no footnotes – even if there was, half of the article is completely lifted word for word. We're talking about 7 pages. Word. For. Word.pic.twitter.com/tOpETA3HHF
Now we get the most egregious nabbing. Altınkemer, at the time also an employee at the Central Bank, IS NOT EVEN MENTIONED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Very harsh. It would be incredible if she is still at the Bank but I don’t think she is. Let me know if you can track down her CV.pic.twitter.com/YmVSKKJ33k
Altınkemer is fully plagiarised for another few paragraphs. And then we’re back to Mishkin to deliver the coup de grace and conclusion. If I were Mishkin, I would be very miffed at the new Governor of the Turkish Central Bank.pic.twitter.com/Pz3LaX8GXP
In any other country, this kind of plagiarism would lead to resignations. It would be a front page scandal. In full capitals. I doubt very much whether it will even be news in Turkey.
SERIOUSLY, THIS IS UTTERLY CRAZY. The markets talk about Turkey’s Central Bank credibility but here we have a thesis by its new Governor that was simply CTRL-C, CTRL-V from three separate articles.
Meanwhile, the Turkish lira and the broader Turkish economy may well get battered this week. It is disheartening to know that the man at the helm thought that this kind of academic fraud was in any way OK. It’s not and it’s a deep shame.
Central Bank authority was shredded by the decision to fire the Governor, supposedly an independent actor. That credibility is surely now even further in tatters at a time when the entire country needs it more than ever.
A fantastic extra catch from Ker here. Look at the thesis supervisor.https://twitter.com/keremiko1/status/1148120858327703552?s=20 …
Some noting that this is sort of normal for Turkey. Imagine a brain surgeon carrying out an operation on a loved one and hearing they had stolen their thesis just as they readied their scalpel. Well, this is an entire nation's economy and the scalpel is about to be plunged in.
Okay can I just say something, as ridiculous as this may sound and I swear I'm not trying to make excuses - considering the state of academics in Turkey, I wouldn't be surprised if it's fine to take word for word from other sources as long as they're mentioned in the bibliography
Even Turkey doesn't allow that. One of the articles wasn't even cited and students are still told to paraphrase or quote portions. This was literal copy and paste of whole pages at a time. There is no world in which that is OK.
was there not a recent Constitutional court verdict saying that plagiarism was only cause for disciplinary procedures if the original author complained? Given that most plagiarism in Turkey is stuff translated from English to Turkish, the original author doesn't even know mostly.
as for being OK Can, it obviously isn't but the most famous plagiarist is Ihsan Doğramacı and he has a university named after him, was founder and head of YÖK, rector etc. Culturally it is does seem to be ok (although obviously it isn't).
That in no way legitimises this. Was in Turkish too by the way. By Esin's notion, I could just take any book I wanted, slap my name on the front and put a bibliography at the back with the author's name and then sell it as mine. Not legit.https://twitter.com/fkkizilca/status/1147624945964527616?s=20 …
I'm not talkin about legitimizing it. It's completely illegitimate. But in Turkey nobody cares.
Reason No. 3,576 for why Turkey is uniquely and forever screwed.
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