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List Of Robert College Alumni
The following is a list of notable graduates of Robert College and Robert Academy (RA), American College for Girls (ACG), Robert Yuksek, which were the subsections of Robert College until the merger of 1971. A * Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist * Hranoush Agaganian ( Madame Bey), wife of a diplomat and operator of a center for boxing in the U.S.Kuneralp, Sinan. "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867–1917." In: Criss, Nur Bilge, Selçuk Esenbel, Tony Greenwood, and Louis Mazzari (editors). ''American Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture, 1830–1989'' (EBSCO Ebook Academic Collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 12 July 2011. , 9781443832601. pp100 * Zeki Alasya, actor * Safiye Ali, first Turkish woman to become a medical doctor * Engin Ardıç, writer * Tomur Atagok, artist, painter * Türkkaya Ataöv, academic and columnist B * Henri Barki, professor of management information systems * Selçuk Bayraktar, engineer and businesspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert College
The American Robert College of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi or ), often shortened to Robert, or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational Secondary school, high school in Turkey.The Education in Turkey, Turkish education system divides schools into two classes: public or private. According to this classification, Robert College is a private school. The school is situated in a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul in the Beşiktaş district, with the historic Arnavutköy neighborhood to the east and the upscale Ulus neighborhood to the west. Founded in 1863, Robert College is the oldest continuously operating American school outside the United States. Robert College is consistently ranked as the top private high school in Turkey. The school has a long list of Robert College alumni, list of notable alumni, including entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, artists, three List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halil Berktay
Halil Berktay is a Turkish people, Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily ''Taraf''. Life and career Berktay was born into an intellectual Turkish communist family. His father, Erdogan Berktay, was a member of the old clandestine Communist Party of Turkey (historical), Communist Party of Turkey. As a result of this influence, Halil Berktay remained a Maoist for two decades before he became "an independent left-intellectual". (talk given at the "Armenians and the Left" symposium on March 31, 2007) After graduating from Robert College in 1964, Berktay studied economics at Yale University receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Master of Arts in 1969.Curriculum vitæ Sabancı University. He went on to earn a PhD from Birmingham University in 1990. He worked as lecturer at Ankara University f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arwa Damon
Arwa Damon (born September 19, 1977) is an American journalist who is a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. She is also president and founder of INARA, a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria. Early life and education Born in Boston, to an American father and Syrian mother, Damon spent her early childhood years in Wayland, Massachusetts. Damon is the granddaughter of Muhsin al-Barazi, the former Syrian Kurd Prime Minister of Syria, who was executed in the August 1949 Syrian coup d'état. At the age of six, Damon and her family moved to Morocco, followed by Istanbul, Turkey three years later, where her father was a teacher and middle school director at Robert College. He went from there to Işıkkent School in Izmir, and was then headmaster of the American Community School at Beirut from 2003 until his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tansu Çiller
Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. As the leader of the True Path Party, she went on to concurrently serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997. As a Professor of Economics, Çiller was appointed Minister of State for the economy by Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel in 1991. When Demirel was elected as President in 1993, Çiller was elected leader of the True Path Party and succeeded Demirel as Prime Minister. Her premiership preceded over the intensifying armed conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK, resulting in Çiller's enacting numerous reforms to national defense and implementing the Castle Plan. With a better equipped military, Çiller's government was able to persuade the United States and the European Union to register the PK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engin Cezzar
Hüsnü Engin Cezzar (25 March 1935 – 26 January 2017) was a Turkish director, and stage, movie and TV actor. Cezzar, who started acting in Istanbul City Theatres with the role of "Hamlet", had the title of the youngest actor ever to portray this character in the world. He performed many plays in the theater community he founded with his wife Gülriz Sururi in 1962 and took the lead role in many of them. His name has become synonymous with the character of Keşanlı Ali in the musical ''Keşanlı Ali Destanı'' by Haldun Taner, in which Cezzar had the leading role. He was one of the oldest friends of James Baldwin. Life Cezzar was born in Istanbul in 1935. After finishing primary school, he continued his education at Robert College. Upon his interest in theater, which started at Robert College, he studied at the Theater department of Yale University in the US and at the Actors Studio Theater School. In 1958, he played the leading role in Franz Kafka's ''The Warden of the Tomb' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ä°smail Cem
İsmail Cem (born İsmail Cem İpekçi, 15 February 1940 – 24 January 2007) was a Turkish centre-leftist politician, intellectual and journalist who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from 1997 to 2002. Background İsmail Cem finished high school at Robert College in İstanbul in 1959 and graduated from the Law School at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1963. He had his master's degree in sociology of politics at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in 1983, Paris, France. He was an exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs at Piedmont High School, Piedmont California for one year during his high school years. A member of one of the most prominent families in Turkey, Cem was the cousin of murdered liberal-leftist journalist, intellectual and human rights activist Abdi İpekçi, the editor in chief for then centre-leftist Milliyet newspaper. Cem was the son of İhsan İpekçi (1901-1966), who was one of the pioneers of the Turkish cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeynep Çelik (scholar)
Zeynep Çelik is a Turkish born architect, architectural historian, theorist, and academic. She is Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is a retired distinguished professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth century urban history, colonialism, orientalism and modernity. Biography She graduated from Robert College in 1970 and obtained her B.Arch from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1975. She received her master's degree from Rice University and her doctorate from the University of California in 1978 and 1985 respectively. Çelik started teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1991. She retired from NJIT as a distinguished professor of architecture. She is the Sakip Sabanci visiting professor of history at Columbia University. She is a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences The Turkish Academy of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halet Çambel
Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish archaeologist and Olympic fencer. She was the first woman with a Muslim background to compete in the Olympic Games. Private life Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on 27 August 1916, to Turkish military attaché Hasan Cemil Bey (Çambel), a close associate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, and Remziye Hanım, the daughter of Ibrahim Hakki Pasha, a former Grand Vizier (prime minister of the Ottoman sultan) and the Ottoman ambassador to the German Empire at the time. She completed her secondary education at Arnavutköy American High School for Girls (today Robert College). During the high school years, she was inspired by her history of art teacher, who organized visits to historic sites of Istanbul. It was at this time that she began to perform fencing. Between 1933–1939, she was educated in archaeology at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Çambel became a scientific assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alev Lytle Croutier
Alev Lytle Croutier, known in Turkey as "Alev Aksoy Croutier" (born 1945 in Ä°zmir, Turkey), is a writer based in San Francisco, US. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the author of the non-fiction books ''Harem: the World behind the Veil'' and ''Taking the Waters'', and the novels ''The Palace of Tears'', ''Seven Houses'', and ''The Third Woman''. Career Croutier studied Comparative Literature at Robert College in Istanbul, and left Turkey at the age of 18 to study Art History at Oberlin College in the US. She has taught at Dartmouth, Goddard, and San Francisco State University, and lectures at universities, museums, libraries, and conferences on Orientalism, Middle Eastern women, harems, and Turkey. Croutier co-founded Mercury House publishing company in San Francisco in 1986 and worked as the executive editor for almost a decade. Film Before becoming a writer, Croutier was a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker in Japan, Turkey, Europe, and the US, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serdar Bulun
Serdar Bulun is a gynecologist, with a special interest in the common gynecologic diseases, endometriosis and uterine fibroids. Biography Bulun was born in Malatya, Turkey in 1959 and moved to Istanbul to attend Robert College and thereafter Istanbul University School of Medicine (Çapa Tıp Fakültesi). He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University at Buffalo in New York and pursued a sub-specialty fellowship in reproductive endocrinology-infertility at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Starting from 2003, he established a comprehensive women’s health research program at Northwestern, and recruited and supported numerous faculty who focus on steroid hormone-related pathology of uterine, breast and ovarian disorders. Throughout his career, Dr. Bulun has been awarded over $70 million of research funding in endometriosis, uterine fibroids and breast cancer. Academic career Bulun discovered the epigenetic basis o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AyÅŸe BuÄŸra
Ayşe Buğra (born 1951) is a Turkish social scientist, currently professor of Political Economy at thAtatürk Institute for Modern Turkish Historyand the co-founder of thof Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She is a recipient of the TWAS Prize for Social Sciences which she received in 2014. After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, she continued her education at Boğaziçi University. With a PhD in Economics from McGill University, Canada, Buğra has written on the history and methodology of economics, development economics, and comparative social policy. In addition to various publications in Turkish, English, and French, she is the translator into Turkish of '' The Great Transformation'' by Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Károly ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964),''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist and politician, best known ... (1986). Select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cem Boyner
Cem Boyner (born September 23, 1955) is a Turkish businessman in the textile industry, owner of department stores, and was a short-time politician. Early life and education Cem Boyner was born on September 3, 1955 in Istanbul to Osman Boyner, a textile industrialist from Tosya. After graduating from Robert College, he studied at Boğaziçi University and earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. Career In 1978, he was appointed the chairman of the board of the family-owned textile company Altınyıldız and of the Boyner department stores. Currently, he is the CEO of Boyner Holding. He served as chairman of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD), the top business association of Turkey, in the 1989-1990 term. In a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, he describes how he introduced the Advantage Card, which revolutionized the way retail was being conducted in Turkey. Cem Boyner got inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
