Ankara University, Law School
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The Ankara University, Law School is a faculty for law of the Ankara University
Ankara University
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....

 in 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...

.

History

Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of legal revolution in 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...

 by endeavours of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey....

, the founder of the Turkish Republic, on November 5, 1925. Also this school is the first modern university-level institution of the newly founded Republic. The Law School had its first graduates in 1928.

Atatürk remarked, "for not any other institution I had such felicity that I felt for the foundation of this institution, which would be the warranty of the Republic, and I am glad to reveal and declare that" in the opening ceremony thereof.

Notable alumni

  • Deniz Baykal
    Deniz Baykal
    Deniz Baykal is a Turkish politician. He was a long-time leader of the Republican People's Party .-Biography:...

     - Politician and Former Leader of the Republican People's Party
  • Jülide Gülizar
    Jülide Gülizar
    Jülide Gülizar was a Turkish anchorwoman and journalist. She was one of Turkey's first television anchors, as well as the first anchorwomen on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation .Gülizar was born in Adana, Turkey, in 1929...

     - One of Turkey's first female news presenter
    News presenter
    A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

  • Adnan Menderes
    Adnan Menderes
    Adnan 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
  • Ahmet Necdet Sezer
    Ahmet Necdet Sezer
    - External links :* , Presidency of the Republic of Turkey...

     - Former President of Turkey
  • Tülay Tuğcu
    Tülay Tugcu
    Tülay 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 of the Supreme Court of Turkey

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