how much he can interviene in dayly life of university, is there legit justification of the students uproar?
Pretty much everything,
A rector manages, reaches down to anywhere in university from academic promotions, awarding projects, recruitment, he also has power of replacing deans of faculties (through brute force) even vice deans, relocating (surgun) people at different campuses, awarding residence (lojman)
He has power in anything academic or official. Considering students, academicians or office workers of the university.
He can rent university's land, buildings even sell them out. Isnt it solely enough power ?
Why the protests are legit?
There used to be elections within university, despite of being appointed by president in the past , at least there has been an election to see potential support for a rector candidate.
Erdogan has changed this to: anyone can apply for rector position at whichever university he picks, YOK reduces the count down to 3, Erdogan does the final pick.
But wait, he (erdogan) was just speaking about remaking the laws because they were mainly made coup governments in 60 and 80, but YOK itself, and government's involvement in universities also stems from the 80 coup, Universities used to be free and independent before the coup. why does he like this very much despite of being made by a coup government?
But because he likes this, he is not ever mentioning to remove coup effect of YOK and government influence on universities.
Melih Bulu , in no way is a proper candidate to be a rector. He has no posture of past experience to be a rector. He is solely chosen for being an AKP candidate.
All of well found universities were appointed by rectors (yet with their political choise towards AKP they are experienced people deserving a rector title) with a good history of management of instutes or faculties.