Ankara University, Law School

39°55′45″N 32°52′19″E / 39.92906°N 32.87182°E / 39.92906; 32.87182Websitewww.law.ankara.edu.tr

The Ankara University, Law School (Turkish: Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi formerly known Ankara Adliye Hukuk Mektebi) is a faculty for law of the Ankara University in Turkey.

History

Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of a legal revolution in Turkey by the endeavors of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, on November 5, 1925.^[1] It was the first modern university-level institution of the newly founded Republic. The Law School had its first graduates in 1928.

Atatürk remarked, "For no other institution do I feel such felicity that I feel for this institution, which will be the warranty of the Republic, and I am glad to reveal and open it" in the opening ceremony thereof.

Authorized abbreviation is AÜHF .

Notable graduates

• Deniz Baykal – politician and former leader of the Republican People's Party
• Emine Ülker Tarhan - chairwoman of YARSAV and former leader of Anatolian Party
• Jülide Gülizar – one of Turkey's first female news presenters^[2]
• Adnan Menderes – former Prime Minister of Turkey
• Ahmet Necdet Sezer – former President of Turkey
• Tülay Tuğcu – former chief of the Constitutional Court of Turkey
• Kemal Güven – former speaker of the Turkish parliament (1973-1977)
• Uğur Mumcu – investigative journalist for daily Cumhuriyet.
• Turgut Özakman – writer of Şu Çılgın Türkler
• Bülent Arınç – Turkish politician
• Şerafettin Elçi – former Minister of Public Works
• Selahattin Demirtaş – co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party
• Kemal Burkay – politician and writer
• Çetin Altan – journalist
• Ece Temelkuran – columnist and writer
• Doğu Perinçek – Turkish politician
• Çiğdem Toker – investigative journalist

See also

• Ankara University
• Turkish universities

References

External links

• Ankara University, Law School