标题：The opinions of the academicians of different statuses about changing the status of research assistants assigned by Faculty Development Programme (ÖYP) Öğretim Üyesi Yetiştirme Programı (ÖYP) ile atanan araştırma görevlilerinin statülerinin değiştirilmesine yönelik akademisyen görüşleri
摘要：The aim of research is to determine the opinions of the academicians of different statuses about the recruitment of the research assistants who are working with the Faculty Development Programme (ÖYP) to the temporary 50/d cadre from the 33/a staff by the Decreee Law No. 674. Case study design, one of the qualitative research models, was used in this study. Data which were collected by semi-structured interview form were analysed via descriptive and content analysis. This research sampling method was developed using maximum diversity sampling method. The sample of the current study consists of academicians of different status at Gazi University Sports Science Faculty. Academicians have stated that ÖYP application has both strenghts (e.g. favouritism and nepotism prevention, ıdeological organization and objective employment) and weakness (e.g. employment without the initiative of the universities, ınadequacy of employment criteria and branching problem in sport sciences). Three subcategories were obtained for the status change of ÖYP. These are: "University Pressure", "Political" and "Systematic problems related to ÖYP". As a result, academics stated that; the status change was not related to any terrorist organization and had different purposes, It is a wrong decision to leave the universities for the return of the status, this change will negative effect of the research assistants due to fear of the future. They also believe that this status will return.
