Gazi University Ankara
Gazi University is a public type university that is based in Ankara Turkey. It was founded in the year 1926 by Kamal Ataturk. Initially it was started working as a Gazi Teacher training Institute and later on it became merged with the Bolu Academy of Engineering and Architecture, Ankara Academy of Economy and Commerce, Ankara College of Technical Teachers, Ankara Girls' College of Technical Teachers, Ankara State Academy of Engineering and Architecture and after merging all of these institutes Gazi University came into being. Gazi University is currently consisting on 15 faculties, nine vocational schools for higher education, six graduate and 26 research centers. There are approximately more than 57,000 students that are enrolled at Gazi University and among all those approximately 1,500 students are from Turkic states of Central Asia.
Following Faculties are working at Gzai University
- Gazi Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Arts and Science
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- Faculty of Industrial Arts Education
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
- Faculty of Communication
- Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
- Faculty of Technical Education
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Health Education
- Faculty of Commercial and Tourism Education
- Faculty of Vocational Education
Gazi University contains multiple campuses that are located in different location in Ankara. The main campus is located in Besevler.
Gazi university contains a central library that is equipped with 150, 000 books, 10, 000 master theses and 62, 000 periodicals. Several international research journals are also available at University.
Famous Alumni
- Illhan Berk
- Ozdemir Ince
- Abbas Guclu
- Zeki Sezer
- Bulent Bezdud
- Nurcan Taylan
- Hamza Yerlikaya
- Halil Mutu
- Sinan Samil Sam
- Naim Suleymanoglu
- Fakir Baykurt
- Mehlih Gokcek
- Sinan Aygun
- Biket Illhan
- Handan Ipekci
- Mehmet Zafer Caglayan
- Nihat Ozdemir
- Inci Aral
