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Ankara University is a public university
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 university....
 in Ankara
Ankara

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
, the capital city of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic
Turkish republic

Turkish republic is a phrase which refers to republics of Turkish people or Turkic peoples. It is also the misuse of the phrase Republic of Turkey....
.

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, such as Doctorate with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous Undergraduate education degree....
 programs. In total it has about 164 programs.

ra 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 Mülkiye
Mekteb-i Mülkiye

Mekteb-i M?lkiye was a vocational high school in the Ottoman Empire, which was established on 28 January 1859. It is the core of the constitution of the modern Ankara University....
 since 1859, and which was later on moved to Ankara
Ankara

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
) in 1936 upon the directive of Atatürk.






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Ankara University is a public university
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 university....
 in Ankara
Ankara

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
, the capital city of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic
Turkish republic

Turkish republic is a phrase which refers to republics of Turkish people or Turkic peoples. It is also the misuse of the phrase Republic of Turkey....
.

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, such as Doctorate with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous Undergraduate education degree....
 programs. In total it has about 164 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 Mülkiye
Mekteb-i Mülkiye

Mekteb-i M?lkiye was a vocational high school in the Ottoman Empire, which was established on 28 January 1859. It is the core of the constitution of the modern Ankara University....
 since 1859, and which was later on moved to Ankara
Ankara

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
) 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 Çankiri
Çankiri

?ankiri is capital city of ?ankiri Province, in Turkey, about northeast of Ankara. It is situated in a rich well-watered valley, at about 800 m in elevation....
 Faculty of Forestry and the Health Education Faculty were opened to education in 1996.

Organization

The 15 faculties are:

  • Faculty of Agriculture
    Agriculture

    Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
  • Faculty of Communication
    Communication

    Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs...",, 1: an act or instance of transmitting and 3 a: "a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or beha...
  • Faculty of Dental Medicine
    Dentistry

    Dentistry is the known evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the mouth, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body....
  • Faculty of Educational Sciences
  • Faculty of Engineering
    Engineering

    Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying Technology and science knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and process that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria....
  • Faculty of Forestry
    Forestry

    Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. Silviculture, a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests....
     in Çankiri
    Çankiri

    ?ankiri is capital city of ?ankiri Province, in Turkey, about northeast of Ankara. It is situated in a rich well-watered valley, at about 800 m in elevation....
  • Faculty of Health Education
    Health education

    Health education is defined as the principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health....
  • Faculty of Law
    Ankara University, Law School

    History Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of legal revolution in Turkey by endavours of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, on November 5, 1925....
  • Faculty of Letters
    Literature

    Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
  • Faculty of Medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  • Faculty of Pharmacy
    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemistrys, and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of medication....
  • Faculty of Political Sciences
  • Faculty of Science
    Science

    In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
  • Faculty of Theology
    Theology

    Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
  • Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
    Veterinary medicine

    Veterinary medicine is that branch of medical science,which deals with the study of diagnosis,treatment and prevention of diseases in companion,domestic, exotic, wildlife and production animals....


Notable alumni


  • Bülent Arinç
    Bülent Arinç

    B?lent Arin? is a Turkish people politician of oratorical renown. He served as the 22nd house speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from 2002 to 2007....
     - politican and foemer speaker of the parliament
  • Deniz Baykal
    Deniz Baykal

    Deniz Baykal is a Turkish people politician and long-time leader of the Republican People's Party . At the moment, he is the main opposition leader of the Turkish parliament....
     - politician and party leader
  • Ataol Behramoglu
    Ataol Behramoglu

    Ataol Behramoglu [* April 13, 1942 ?atalca near Istanbul].Is a prominent Turkish poet, translator and author....
     - poet and university lecturer
  • Osman Birsen
    Osman Birsen

    Osman Birsen is a Turkey high-ranking civil servant for finance and was the CEO of the Istanbul Stock Exchange between 1997 and 2007.Birsen was born in Ankara, Turkey....
     - former CEO of Istanbul Stock Exchange
    Istanbul Stock Exchange

    The Istanbul Stock Exchange is the only corporation in Turkey for securities exchange established to provide trading in equities, Bond and bills, revenue-sharing certificates, private sector bonds, foreign securities and real estate certificates as well as international securities....
  • Cengiz Çandar
    Cengiz Çandar

    Cengiz ?andar is a Turkish people journalist and a former war correspondent....
     - journalist
  • Hikmet Çetin
    Hikmet Çetin

    Hikmet ?etin is a Turkish people politician, former List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and was leader of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi for a short time....
     - former speaker of the parliament
  • Can Dündar
    Can Dündar

    Can D?ndar is a Turkish people journalist, columnist and documentarian. He is one of the best known figures in Turkish media, described as possessing "impeccable republican credentials"....
     - journalist
  • Muammer Güler
    Muammer Güler

    Muammer G?ler is a Turkish civil servant and currently the List of Governors of Istanbul of Istanbul Province....
     - Governor of Istanbul
  • Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
    Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

    Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is a Turkish people science historian and currently the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference , the second largest public international organisation after the United Nations....
     - Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
  • Erdal Inönü
    Erdal Inönü

    Erdal In?n? was a Turkey physicist and politician. He was Turkey's second president Ismet In?n?'s son. Leader of the Social Democratic People's Party between 1983 and 1993, he served as Deputy Prime Minister in two governments between 1991 and 1993 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs for approximately six months in 1995....
     -academic and politician
  • Ahmet Taner Kislali
    Ahmet Taner Kislali

    Ahmet Taner Kislali was a Turkish people intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, journalist/author, academics and politician....
     - intellectual and former government minister
  • Ferit Melen
    Ferit Melen

    Ferit Sadi Melen was a Turkish people civil servant, politician and List of Prime Ministers of Turkey....
     - former prime minister
  • Adnan Menderes
    Adnan Menderes

    Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes was a Turkish people Liberalism statesman and the first democratically elected leader in Turkish history. He served as Turkish Prime Minister between 1950?1960....
     - former prime minister
  • Murathan Mungan
    Murathan Mungan

    Murathan Mungan is a Turkish author, playwright and poet of Kurdish origin....
     - author
  • Tahsin Özgüç
    Tahsin Özgüç

    Tahsin ?zg??, was an eminent Turkey field archaeologist. His long career, began after the World War II and lasted up to the present, made him doyen of Anatolian archaeology....
     - archaeologist
  • Ahmet Necdet Sezer
    Ahmet Necdet Sezer

    Ahmet Necdet Sezer was the tenth List of Presidents of Turkey of the Republic of Turkey. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elected Sezer in 2000 after S?leyman Demirel's seven year term expired....
     - President of Turkey (2000-2007)
  • Cemal Süreya
    Cemal Süreya

    Cemal S?reya was a Turkey poet and writer....
     - poet
  • Tülay Tugcu
    Tülay Tugcu

    T?lay Tugcu is a Turkish people former judge. She was the Chief Justice of the Turkish Constitutional Court of Turkey, Chief Justice of Turkey....
     - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Turkey


See also

  • List of universities in Turkey
    List of universities in Turkey

    This is a list of universities in Turkey. There are 146 university and academies in Turkey: 102 of them are Public University , and 24 private foundation universities, four Military Academy and one police academy....
  • Ankara
    Ankara

    Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
  • Ankara University, Law School
    Ankara University, Law School

    History Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of legal revolution in Turkey by endavours of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, on November 5, 1925....
  • Mekteb-i Mülkiye
    Mekteb-i Mülkiye

    Mekteb-i M?lkiye was a vocational high school in the Ottoman Empire, which was established on 28 January 1859. It is the core of the constitution of the modern Ankara University....


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