Ankara University
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Ankara University is a public university
in Ankara
, the capital city of Turkey
. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic.
The university has about 40 vocational programs, 114 undergraduate programs and 110 graduate
programs. In total it has about 264 programs.
since 1859, and which was later on moved to Ankara
) in 1936 upon the directive of Atatürk. The Schools of Medicine and of Science were established in the 1940s.
Ankara University, comprising the Faculty of Law (1925), the Faculty of Language, History and Geography (1935), the Faculty of Science (1943), and the Faculty of Medicine (1945), was established officially in 1946. The University acquired the Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine which previously belonged to the Institute of Technology for Agriculture. The School of Divinity was founded in 1949 and the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1950, then came the School of Pharmacy in 1960, and in 1963 the School of Dentistry which later became a Faculty in 1977, the Faculty of Educational Sciences in 1965, and the Faculty of Communication in 1965. The Çankırı
Faculty of Forestry and the Health Education Faculty were opened to education in 1996.
Public university
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, the capital city of Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic.
The university has about 40 vocational programs, 114 undergraduate programs and 110 graduate
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
programs. In total it has about 264 programs.
History
Ankara University was founded by Atatürk. The School of Law was established in 1925 to train judiciaries, the Institute of Technology for Agriculture in 1933, the School of Language, History and Geography in 1935 and the already existing School of Political Sciences (that trained public administrators under the name of Mekteb-i MülkiyeMekteb-i Mülkiye
Mekteb-i Mülkiye, established on February 12, 1859 in Istanbul, was a vocational high school in the Ottoman Empire. Following the foundation of the Republic, the school moved in 1936 to Cebeci quarter in Ankara. On December 4, 1938, the school was renamed "School of Political Sciences"...
since 1859, and which was later on moved to Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
) in 1936 upon the directive of Atatürk. The Schools of Medicine and of Science were established in the 1940s.
Ankara University, comprising the Faculty of Law (1925), the Faculty of Language, History and Geography (1935), the Faculty of Science (1943), and the Faculty of Medicine (1945), was established officially in 1946. The University acquired the Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine which previously belonged to the Institute of Technology for Agriculture. The School of Divinity was founded in 1949 and the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1950, then came the School of Pharmacy in 1960, and in 1963 the School of Dentistry which later became a Faculty in 1977, the Faculty of Educational Sciences in 1965, and the Faculty of Communication in 1965. The Çankırı
Çankırı
-Agriculture:Various produce like wheat, corn, beans, apple etc. are grown in the farms, and fields that are rich of water.-Industry:Most of the industry is located near the city center and Korgun. Other towns that are in the industrial map of the city are Şabanözü, Çerkeş, Ilgaz, Kurşunlu, and...
Faculty of Forestry and the Health Education Faculty were opened to education in 1996.
Organization
The 14 faculties are:- Faculty of MedicineMedicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
- Faculty of Dental MedicineDentistryDentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
- Faculty of PharmacyPharmacyPharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
- Faculty of Health EducationHealth educationHealth education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health...
- Faculty of Veterinary MedicineVeterinary medicineVeterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals...
- Faculty of Political Sciences (Mekteb-i MülkiyeMekteb-i MülkiyeMekteb-i Mülkiye, established on February 12, 1859 in Istanbul, was a vocational high school in the Ottoman Empire. Following the foundation of the Republic, the school moved in 1936 to Cebeci quarter in Ankara. On December 4, 1938, the school was renamed "School of Political Sciences"...
) - Faculty of LawAnkara University, Law SchoolThe Ankara University, Law School is a faculty for law of the Ankara University in Turkey.- History :Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of legal revolution in Turkey by endeavours of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish...
- Faculty of ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
- Faculty of EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
- Faculty of CommunicationCommunicationCommunication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
- Faculty of Educational Sciences
- Faculty of Languages, History and Geography
- Faculty of TheologyTheologyTheology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
- Faculty of AgricultureAgricultureAgriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
Notable alumni
- Bülent ArınçBülent ArinçBülent Arınç , is a Turkish politician. He served as the 22nd house speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2002 to 2007. He is one of the State Ministers of Turkey and Vice-Prime Minister today.-Life and education:...
- politician and former speaker of the parliament - İsmail Hakkı Duruİsmail Hakkı Duruİsmail Hakkı Duru is a Turkish theoretical physicist and professor of Mathematics at the Izmir Institute of Technology where he is dean of the science faculty.-Scholarships:NATO scholarship during B.S...
- Theoritical Physicist - Deniz BaykalDeniz BaykalDeniz Baykal is a Turkish politician. He was a long-time leader of the Republican People's Party .-Biography:...
- politician and party leader - Ataol BehramogluAtaol BehramogluAtaol Behramoğlu [* April 13, 1942 Çatalca near Istanbul].Is a prominent Turkish poet, translator and author.- Life :Ataol Behramoğlu graduated from the University of Ankara, Department of Russian Language and Literature in 1966. In 1970 he published his second book of verse “One Day Definitely”...
- poet and university lecturer - Osman BirsenOsman BirsenOsman Birsen is a Turkish high-ranking civil servant for finance and was the CEO of the Istanbul Stock Exchange between 1997 and 2007....
- former CEO of Istanbul Stock ExchangeIstanbul Stock ExchangeThe Istanbul Stock Exchange is the only corporation in Turkey for securities exchange established to provide trading in equities, bonds and bills, revenue-sharing certificates, private sector bonds, foreign securities and real estate certificates as well as international securities. The ISE was... - Cengiz ÇandarCengiz ÇandarCengiz Çandar is a Turkish journalist and a former war correspondent.-Early life:He finished the secondary school at Talas American College in Talas, Kayseri and the high school at Tarsus American College in Tarsus, Mersin...
- journalist - Hikmet ÇetinHikmet ÇetinHikmet Çetin is a Turkish politician former minister of foreign affairs and was leader of the Republican People's Party for a short time. He served also as the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly....
- former speaker of the parliament - Can DündarCan DündarCan Dündar is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. He is one of the best known figures in Turkish media, described as possessing "impeccable republican credentials".-Biography:...
- journalist - Adnan SezginAdnan SezginAdnan Sezgin is a former soccer player, and serves Turkish football in various administrative positions....
- former soccer player and current businessman - Muammer GülerMuammer GülerMuammer Güler is a Turkish civil servant and was previously the governor of Istanbul Province.-Biography:Güler was born in Mardin, Turkey. He completed his primary education in Ankara and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ankara in 1972. Güler began his career as candidate...
- Governor of Istanbul - Ekmeleddin IhsanogluEkmeleddin IhsanogluEkmeleddin İhsanoğlu is a Turkish academic, diplomat and currently the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , the second largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations...
- Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic ConferenceOrganisation of the Islamic ConferenceThe Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Upon the groups's renaming, some sources provided the English-language translation "Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation", but and have since indicated the preferred English translation omits the "the". is an international organisation consisting of 57... - Erdal İnönüErdal InönüErdal İnönü was a Turkish physicist and politician. He was the son of Turkey's second president İsmet İnönü...
-academic and politician - Ahmet Taner KışlalıAhmet Taner KislaliAhmet Taner Kışlalı was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, journalist/author, academics and politician.-Biography:...
- intellectual and former government minister - Ferit MelenFerit MelenFerit Sadi Melen was a Turkish civil servant, politician and Prime Minister of Turkey.-Biography:After finishing the high school in Bursa, he obtained a degree in finance from the School of Political Science at Ankara University in 1931...
- former prime minister - Adnan MenderesAdnan MenderesAdnan Menderes was the first democratically elected Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet...
- former prime minister - Murathan MunganMurathan MunganMurathan Mungan is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright and poet.- Biography :His family originates from Mardin. After receiving his BA degree from the Faculty of Letters and Drama department at Ankara University, he worked as a dramaturg before devoting all his time to write poetry,...
- author - Tahsin ÖzgüçTahsin ÖzgüçTahsin Özgüç, was an eminent Turkish field archaeologist. His long career, began after the World War II and lasted up to the present, made him doyen of Anatolian archaeology....
- archaeologist - Engin Tuzun Paksoy - Professor of Plant Genetics
- Ismail Faruk Paksoy - Director, ESHOT, Izmir
- Ahmet Necdet SezerAhmet Necdet Sezer- External links :* , Presidency of the Republic of Turkey...
- President of Turkey (2000-2007) - Cemal SüreyaCemal SüreyaCemal Süreyya was a poet and writer.-Biography:After the 1938 Dersim Rebellion, Sureya and his family were forcefully deported to Bilecik, a Turkish city in western Anatolia. This had a significant affect on his poems.He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University...
- poet - Tülay TuğcuTülay TugcuTülay Tuğcu is a retired Turkish judge. She was the President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Chief Justice of Turkey. She retired on June 12, 2007.-Biography:...
- Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Turkey - Mehmet Keçeciler - former minister, politician
- Murat KarayalçınMurat KarayalçinMurat Karayalçın is a prominent Turkish politician. He is a former foreign minister and a former mayor of Ankara .Karayalçın is the founder of Social Democratic People's Party...
- former Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Deputy Prime Minister and former Mayor of Ankara - Sedat LaçinerSedat LaçinerSedat Laçiner , academic, columnist and author, is a Turkish academic specialist on the Middle East and International Relations, with particular reference to Turkish foreign policy. Prof. Dr...
- IR lecturer and Director of International Strategic Research Organization (USAK) - Hasan Celal Güzel - former Minister of National Education
- Mehmet Hakkı SuçinMehmet Hakkı SuçinMehmet Hakkı Suçin is a Turkish author and Arabist .-Biography:He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Letters in 1993. He worked as a translator and interpreter in Kuwait Embassy to Turkey . He completed his master thesis on Egyptian novelist and short story writer Yahya Haqqi...
- arabist
See also
- List of universities in Turkey
- AnkaraAnkaraAnkara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
- Ankara University, Law SchoolAnkara University, Law SchoolThe Ankara University, Law School is a faculty for law of the Ankara University in Turkey.- History :Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of legal revolution in Turkey by endeavours of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish...
- Mekteb-i MülkiyeMekteb-i MülkiyeMekteb-i Mülkiye, established on February 12, 1859 in Istanbul, was a vocational high school in the Ottoman Empire. Following the foundation of the Republic, the school moved in 1936 to Cebeci quarter in Ankara. On December 4, 1938, the school was renamed "School of Political Sciences"...