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Ankara University, Law School
The Ankara University, Law School ( tr, 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. 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 * Jülide Gülizar – one of Turkey's first female news presenters * Adnan Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya In Kenya, the Ministry of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tülay Tuğcu
Tülay Tuğcu (born June 12, 1942 in Ankara) is a retired Turkish judge. She was the President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Chief Justice of Turkey. She retired on June 12, 2007. Biography Tuğcu was born in Ankara and attended TED College for primary and high school. In 1961, she enrolled in Ankara University Faculty of Law and graduated in 1965. After working as a lawyer for 4 years, she successfully passed the exams required to start working at the Council of State (Danıştay) as assistant to Council of State. In 1974, she graduated from Institute of "Public Administration of Turkey and the Middle East" (Türkiye ve Ortadoğu Amme İdaresi Enstitüsü - TODAİE) in Ankara. In 1982, she was appointed to the senior judicial ost of Investigation at First Department of the Council of State, where she served until 1992. In 1992, Tülay Tuğcu was elected member of Turkish Council of State and started serving at the Sixth Department. After 3 years, she was transf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çetin Altan
Çetin Altan (22 June 1927 – 22 October 2015) was a Turkish writer, journalist, and a member of parliament. He was considered one of the finest writers in the modern Turkish language of the late 20th century. Early years Çetin Altan was born on 22 June 1927 to lawyer Halit Bey of Crimean Tatar descent and his wife Nurhayat. Until age seven, he was called Altan. With the adoption of the Surname Law in Turkey in 1934, the family chose the name Altan as their surname, and the son was renamed Çetin. At age eight, he was schooled in the elite Galatasaray High School as a boarding pupil, where he suffered from loneliness. After graduating from the high school, he received a degree from the Ankara University, Law School. He chose a writing career instead of pursuing a diplomatic career contrary to his father's will as he related once in an interview "to escape the loneliness". Family life Çetin Altan grew up in the family mansion at Göztepe, Istanbul. He married Kerime, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Burkay
Kemal Burkay (1937, Kizilkale, Mazgirt, Tunceli) is a writer and politician. Biography He attended his primary education in Tunceli and graduated from Ankara University, Law School in 1960. Political career In 1965 he joined the ''Türkiye İşçi Partisi''. Due to an article published in 1966, he was jailed in prison. Following the coup d'état in 1971 most of the Kurds who were politically involved were detained. Burkay was imprisoned for one year, and after a new arrest warrant surged, Burkay went into exile to Germany in 1972. In 1974, Burkay was involved prominently in the establishment of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan (TKPS) which published the magazine '' Özgürlük Yolu'' between 1975 to 1979. ''Özgürlük Yolu'' was to become an influential magazine for the Kurdish politicians at the time. In 1980, just ahead of the coup d' etat of the military, he left Turkey and settled in Sweden. In 1993, then the head of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan, he was intervi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
The Peoples' Democratic Party ( Turkish: ''Halkların Demokratik Partisi'', acronymized as HDP; Kurdish: ''Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan''), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a pro- minority political party in Turkey. Generally left-wing, the party places a strong emphasis on participatory and radical democracy, feminism, LGBT rights, minority rights, youth rights and egalitarianism. It is an associate member of the Party of European Socialists (PES) a consultative member of the Socialist International and a party within the Progressive Alliance (PA). Aspiring to fundamentally challenge the existing Turkish–Kurdish divide and other existing parameters in Turkish politics, the HDP was founded in 2012 as the political wing of the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a union of numerous left-wing movements that had previously fielded candidates as independents to bypass the 10% election threshold. The HDP is in an alliance with the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), often descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selahattin Demirtaş
Selahattin Demirtaş (born 10 April 1973) is a politician, author, and former member of the parliament of Turkey. He was the co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), serving alongside Figen Yüksekdağ from 2014 to 2018. Demirtaş was the presidential candidate of the HDP in the 2014 presidential election, coming in third place. He led the HDP to gather 13.1% at the June 2015 parliament elections and 10.7% in the snap elections in November 2015, coming 4th in each election. He has been imprisoned since 4 November 2016 and despite his imprisonment the HDP fielded Demirtaş as its candidate for the 2018 presidential election, running his campaign from prison. In a judgement given in December 2020, the European Court of Human Rights judged that, given "the timing of emirtaşcontinued detention (coinciding with an important constitutional referendum and the presidential election)" and Turkey's "systemic trend of “gagging” dissenting voices", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şerafettin Elçi
Şerafettin Elçi (14 March 1938 – 25 December 2012) was a Kurdish lawyer, politician, government minister and statesman in Turkey. He was one of the pioneers of Kurdish politics in Turkey. Early years Şerafettin Elçi was born in Cizre, Şırnak Province on 14 March 1938. He finished primary education in his hometown. After completing secondary education in Mardin, he studied law at Ankara University, Law School and graduated in 1964. During his university years, he was tried in the "Case of Kurdish Propagandists" ( tr, Kürtçülük Davası), so-called "Case of the 49s" under accusation of making Kurdish propaganda. After graduation, he pursued a career as a lawyer in Cizre. Following the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, Şerafettin Elçi was tried along with the members of the "Turkey Kurdistan Democratic Party" at the Diyarbakır Military Court, and was incarcerated in the Diyarbakır Military Prison for about eight months. Political career Following the general elections hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bülent Arınç
Bülent Arınç (; born 25 May 1948) is a conservative Turkish politician. He served as the 22nd Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2002 to 2007 and as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey between 2009 and 2015. Early life and education He was born on 25 May 1948 in Bursa, Turkey. After finishing high school in Manisa, Bülent Arınç attended University of Ankara, earning a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1970. After his graduation, he worked as a freelance lawyer in Manisa. He is of Grecophone Cretan Turk heritage with his ancestors arriving to Turkey as Cretan refugees during the time of Sultan Abdul Hamid II to escape massacres and is fluent in Cretan Greek. Entry into politics Interested in politics from his university years, Bülent Arınç ran for the deputy of Manisa in the 1995 general elections, and entered the Turkish Grand National Assembly from the Welfare Party ( tr, Refah Partisi). He became also a member of the board of his party, and served in the parliament's jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turgut Özakman
Turgut Özakman (1 September 1930 – 28 September 2013) was a Turkish lawyer, a civil servant, a dramaturge and a writer. Life He was born in Ankara in 1930. In 1952 he graduated from the law school of Ankara University and served as a lawyer. After studying drama in the University of Cologne, he was appointed as a dramaturge in state theatre of Ankara ( tr, Ankara Devlet Tiyatrosu). Later he also served in the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) as a manager. Between 1983 and 1987 he was the general director in State Theatres. Between 1984 and 1994 he was the vice chairman of Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK). Works As a writer he produced many plays, novels, scenarios and drama researches. But his most notable works are three novels which are collectively known as ''Türkiye Üçlemesi'' ("Turkey Triplet") *''Şu Çılgın Türkler'' (These Crazy Turks) about Turkish War of Independence (published in 2005) *''Diriliş Çanakkale 1915'' (Resuscitation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumhuriyet
''Cumhuriyet'' (; English: " Republic") is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper. It has been described as "the most important independent public interest newspaper in contemporary Turkey". The newspaper was awarded the ''Freedom of Press Prize'' by Reporters Without Borders in 2015 and the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2016. Since 17 October 2005, the newspaper's headquarters have been located in Istanbul's Şişli district, after being the last newspaper to leave the traditional press district of Cağaloğlu. The newspaper also has offices in Ankara and İzmir. The newspaper'advertisementsbefore the 2007 Turkish presidential election and general election with the message "Are you aware of the danger?" were controversial. 's office in Istanbul was the site of a molotov attack in 2008. In 2010, the newspaper was one of the first up-market newspapers in Turkey to abandon the established broadsheet format for the midi-sized Berliner format. In January 2015, the news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uğur Mumcu
Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993) um:ag was a Turkish people, Turkish investigative journalist for the daily ''Cumhuriyet''. He was assassinated by a bomb placed in his car outside his home. Biography Uğur Mumcu was born the third of four siblings in Kırşehir. He went to school in Ankara and in 1961 attended Ankara University, Law School, School of Law at Ankara University. Graduating in 1965 he initially began his career practicing law. In 1969 he ended his legal career to return to his alma mater; working as a teaching assistant until 1972. He started to write during university, first in the magazine ''Yön'' and then in several other leftist periodicals. Between 1968 and 1970, he wrote articles on politics for the newspapers ''Akşam'', ''Cumhuriyet'' and ''Milliyet''. Arrested shortly aft ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
