Ankara University

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The University of Ankara (Turkish: Ankara Üniversitesi ) is a public university in the Turkish capital Ankara with approximately 45,000 students and 3,720 academic staff.

History

The history of Ankara University goes back to the founding of the School of Law in 1925. 1933 was also a "High Institute of Agriculture ", Yüksek Ziraat Enstitüsüdür YZE, founded in 1935 the teaching recorded. Followed in 1935, the Faculty of Language, History and Geography. 1936 ordered Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on to enable the management school founded in 1859 Mekteb -i Mülkiye to Ankara and renamed it to the School of Political Science. Today, the faculty is still called Mülkiye. This school administration has already served in the Ottoman Empire of the education of elite bureaucrats for the state. 1943, the Department of Physics and 1945, the Faculty of Medicine was founded. For these faculties in 1946, the Ankara University was established.

In 1948, the High Institute of Agriculture and the Faculty of Veterinary this. In 1949 the Faculty of Theology was founded. The School of Political Science in 1950 got the status of a faculty. In 1960, the Faculty of Pharmacy was founded. The university was founded in 1963 for dentistry in 1977 to the faculty. In 1965, the Faculty of Education and the School of Press and Publishing were founded, the latter was later converted into the Faculty of Communication Sciences. The Faculty of Engineering was established in the Department of Physics in 2001., The Faculty of Health Education began in 1996 with the training company and was renamed the Faculty of Health Sciences 2007.

The Faculty of Theology of the University of Ankara has held a leadership role in Turkey today. Here a group has been formed by aligned modernist theologians who dealt with methodological issues raised by this high theological and philosophical level and strives to create a new, contemporary understanding of Islam. The group describes itself as Ankara school.

Known graduates

  • Ahmet Akyalçın ( b. 1949 ), President of the Turkish Court of Jurisdictional Disputes
  • Bülent Arınç ( born 1948 ), Turkish politicians
  • Besir Atalay ( born 1947 ), Turkish sociologist, university professor, politician and Minister of the Interior
  • Mehmet Aydın ( born 1943 ), Turkish philosopher, politician and Minister of State
  • Deniz Baykal ( born 1938 ), Turkish politician and former Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi party leader
  • Mustafa Birden ( b. 1946 ), President of the Turkish Council of State
  • Mevlut Cavusoglu ( born 1968 ), Turkish politician and President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
  • Burhan Cahit Doğançay (1929-2013), Turkish painter and photographer
  • Sadettin Ergec ( born 1948 ), Iraqi politician and chairman of the Turkmenenfront of Iraq
  • Hasan Gerçeker ( b. 1946 ), President of the Turkish Court of Cassation
  • Erdal İnönü (1926-2007), physicist and former Turkish Foreign Minister
  • İsmail Kılıç Kökten (1904-1974), archaeologist, Professor
  • Adnan Menderes (1899-1961), former Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Uğur Mumcu (1942-1993), Turkish journalist and writer
  • Ahmet Necdet Sezer ( born 1941 ), former president of Turkey
  • ISIN Yalçınkaya (* 1943), archaeologist, Professor
  • Mesut Yılmaz (* 1947), politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Namik Kemal Zeybek ( born 1944 ), Turkish politician and leader of the Democratic Party
Democratic Party (Turkey, current)
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