Gazi University
Gazi Üniversitesi | |
Motto | Being a Gazi member is a privilege (Turkish: Gazili olmak ayrıcalıktır.) |
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Type | Public University |
Established | 1926 |
Rector | Prof. Dr. Süleyman Büyükberber |
Undergraduates | 69865 |
Postgraduates | 10470 |
Location | , |
Campus | On different and lively parts of the city |
Member of | EUA |
Website | gazi.edu.tr |
Gazi University (Turkish: Gazi Üniversitesi) is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey. It was established in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute. In 1982, it was reorganized by merging with the Bolu Academy of Engineering and Architecture, Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, the Ankara College of Technical Careers, the Ankara Girls' College of Technical Careers, and the Ankara State Academy of Engineering and Architecture to become a large metropolitan university as part of the act which created the Board of Higher Education. Prior to 1982 when the Board of Higher Education Law came into effect, institutes of higher education in Turkey were organized under different structures as universities, academies, institutes, and schools. In 1992 faculties and vocational schools in Bolu became Abant Izzet Baysal University.
Gazi University comprises 21 faculties, 4 schools, 11 vocational schools of higher education, 48 research centers and 7 graduate institutes. The student enrollment of Gazi University has reached approximately 77,000 in total of whom about 1,500 come from the Turkic states of Central Asia. Five thousand students are enrolled in graduate programmes. The total size of the teaching faculty exceeds 3,000 persons.
Faculties
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Arts and Design
- Faculty of Architecture
- Faculty of Communication
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Sciences
- Faculty of Technical Education
- Faculty of Technology
- Faculty of Trade and Tourism Education
- Faculty of Tourism
- Faculty of Vocational Education
- Gazi Faculty of Education
- Industrial Arts Education Faculty
- Polatlı Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Graduate schools
- Graduate School of Educational Sciences
- Graduate School of Fine Arts
- Graduate School of Health Sciences
- Graduate School of Informatics
- Graduate School of Research and Prevention of Accidents
- Graduate School of Sciences
- Graduate School of Social Sciences
Schools
- School of Banking and Insurance
- School of Foreign Languages
- School of Land Registry and Cadastre
- School of Physical Education and Sport
Vocational schools
- Ankara Vocational School
- Atatürk Vocational School
- Beypazari Technical Sciences Vocational School
- Distance Education/Learning Vocational School
- Gazi Vocational School
- Ostim Vocational School
- Polatlı Vocational School of Technical Sciences
- Vocational School of Health Services
- Vacational School of Land Registry and Cadastre
- Vocational School of Law
- Vocational School of Public Finance
University governance
The Rector of Gazi University is Prof. Dr. Süleyman Büyükberber.
Campuses
Gazi University is a city-university which has a multitude of campuses around Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. Its main campus is situated in Beşevler.
The University's campuses are almost directly inside the city, which makes it easier to find houses to live and centers for shopping, for students. There are many activities at these campuses for students, such as the Spring Festival, free concerts, opening concerts, sports tournaments, theatre performances and performances by student clubs as well as scientific and cultural seminars.
Gazi University Central Library
Gazi University library has 150,000 books, 62,000 bound periodicals, and 10,000 master theses. The library subscribes to 700 periodicals in foreign languages and 600 in Turkish, and provides access to 20,000 on-line journals and 30 on-line databases. Collections are predominantly in Turkish, English and German. Library orientation programs are organized for new Gazi students.
Achievements
Turkey's third face transplant, a partial face transplant, was performed on March 17, 2012 on Hatice Nergis, a twenty-year-old woman, at the university's hospital by a team led by surgeon Dr. Selahattin Özmen. The patient from Kahramanmaraş had lost six years ago her upper jaw including mouth, lips, palate, teeth and nasal cavity by a firearm accident, and was unable to eat. She had undergone in the past around 35 reconstructative plastic surgery operations. The donor was a 28-year-old woman in Istanbul, who committed suicide.[1][2][3]
Notable people
Alumni (including graduates of former colleges)
- Ferman Akgül - Songwriter and singer
- İnci Aral - Writer (short-story)
- Sinan Aygün - Chairman of Ankara Trade Chamber
- Fakir Baykurt - Novelist
- İlhan Berk - Poet, writer
- Bülent Bezdüd - Musician with Grammy Awards
- Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan - Minister for Trade and Industry
- Melih Gökçek - Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality
- Abbas Güçlü - Pedagogist, journalist with a popular TV program for students
- Biket İlhan - Film director
- Özdemir İnce - Poet, writer, member of European Poetry Academy
- Handan İpekçi - Screenwriter and film director
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu - Politician, Chairman of the CHP
- Halil Mutlu - Olympic gold medalist and world champion weightlifter
- Nihat Özdemir - Businessman, deputy chairman of Fenerbahçe Sports Club
- Metin Şahin - European taekwondo champion and current president of Turkish Taekwondo Federation
- Sinan Şamil Sam - Professional boxer
- Zeki Sezer - Politician, former chairman of Democratic Left Party
- Naim Süleymanoğlu - Olympic gold medalist and world champion weightlifter
- Nurcan Taylan - Olympic gold medalist and world champion female weightlifter
- Kemal Unakıtan - Former Minister of Finance
- Hamza Yerlikaya - Olympic gold medalist and world champion wrestler
- Devlet Bahçeli - Politician, Chairman of Nationalist Movement Party (Turkey)(MHP)
See also
References
- ^ Cantürk, Safure (2012-03-23). "Gazi, yüz naklini 'damardan' bağladı". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ^ "Üçüncü yüz nakli Gazi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi'nde başladı". Zaman (in Turkish). 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ^ "Üçüncü yüz nakli bir kadına". NTV MSNBC (in Turkish). 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
External links
- Gazi University official website
- Gazi Central Library Template:Tr icon
- Gazi University Foundation Template:Tr icon
- Gazi University Center for Turkish Teaching Template:Tr icon
- Gazi University Center for Foreign Language Teaching [dead link]
- Gazi University Alumni Organization Template:Tr icon
- Radio Gazi Fm Template:Tr icon
- Gazi University Faculty of Engineering Template:Tr icon
- Gazi University Faculty of Architecture Template:Tr icon
- Gazi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Template:Tr icon