Board of Management

Prof. Dr. Salim Ateş OKTAR (Director of the Center)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin TAŞKIN (Deputy Director of the Center)

Prof. Dr. Nagihan OKTAYER (Member)

Prof. Dr. Naci Tolga SARUÇ (Member)

Prof. Dr. Binhan Elif YILMAZ (Member)

History or Story of a 71-Year Journey

Institute of Public Finance, which is the beginning of the Centre of Public Finance Research was established in 1949. Ord. Prof. Dr. Fritz Neumark has been appointed as the first director of the Institute. Prof. Neumark assigned his duty to Prof. Orhan Dikmen in 1952. Among the directors of the Institute of Public Finance, there are also famous names in the science of public finance such as Prof. Dr. Memduh Yaşa and Prof. Dr. Bedi N. Feyzioğlu.

Thirty-three-year journey of the Public Institute of Finance, which started in 1949, has been going on for 30 years under the name of Centre of Public Finance Research pursuant to the provisions of the Provisional Article 2 of the Academic Organization Regulation in Universities published in the Official Gazette dated 18.02.1982 and numbered 17609, like all institutes that did not implement a postgraduate education program prior to Higher Education Law No. 2547

The Journal of Centre of Public Finance Research, which is the academic publication of the Centre of Public Finance Research published since 1955 has been a refereed scientific journal since 2000 and has been indexed/abstracted by the indexes/databases since 2012. The Centre (and Institute) has carried out important tasks in the formulation of fiscal policies, tax reform studies, and formulation of fiscal legislation with the studies, conferences, and reports it has prepared. The library of the centre, consisting of more than 10,000 books and other scientific publications, has been the richest library of the Faculty of Economics after the central library until 1999. Due to the renovation of the Central Building, which was damaged by the earthquake in 1999, books and other scientific publications transferred to the Central Library of the Faculty of Economics.

1-    Higher Education Law No. 2547 and Academic Organization Regulation at Universities (Framework Regulation)

The first legal basis of the Centre of the Public Finance Research is the Provisional Article 2 of the Academic Organization Regulation at the Universities issued in accordance with the law numbered 2547. The provision of the article is as follows:

“The institutes that are not established by the law and established before the Law No. 2547 entered into force, which do not provide graduate or doctorate education independently and whose main duties are research or practice and, can continue their activities as a research or application centre with the decision of the relevant university senate.”

2-    Centre of the Public Finance Research Status (Secondary Regulation)

The establishment and activities of the Centre of the Public Finance Research regulated by the Statute accepted in 1982.