TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of

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in Turkey. College consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Incek Campus is located in

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History

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(Turkish:Türk Eğitim Derneği, abbreviated TED) was founded in 1928 and led the establishment of qualified Turkish schools. TED Ankara College was founded in 1930 as the first school established by

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, and was the first private Turkish school established after the foundation of Republic of Turkey to instruct in

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. In 1931, the primary school, in 1933, the middle school, in 1936 the high school were established. In 1963, the school's administration was handed over to TED Ankara College Foundation. In 2000, the foundation started to build a campus in İncek,

. In 2003-2004 they moved their establishments from Kolej,

to this campus. The name ''Kolej'', the district where TED Ankara College Foundation Schools were located, is coming from the name of the college. The emblem of the schools is coming from the emblem of the association. TED Ankara College currently has more than 5,000 students, 500 teachers, 220 employees and 26,000 alumni. TED Ankara College Foundation High School is accredited to give IB Diploma Program by

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- (IBO) and is one of the IB Schools in Turkey.

Campus life

TED Ankara College Foundation İncek campus has 141,000 square meters of enclosed area and over 309,000 square meters of open area. The campus is located east of Taşpınar village on Yumrubel in İncek, which is in the south part of the capital city,

College library

TED Ankara College Library is situated in the TED Ankara College Campus. The library is divided into four buildings in the campus. The primary school library is in the north building complex, the secondary school and high school libraries are in the east building complexes and there is another section in the administration building which is situated in the middle. The high school library also contains an additional research library inside. Each library has a specific level of content according to where it is located (i.e. primary school, secondary school, or high school library). All four libraries use Dewey Classification system and all the books except the ones in the research library are available to borrow. Library also hosts a website which the books can be found online, there are also some additional online content in the library's website.

Notable alumni

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- Oceanographer *

Mustafa Altıoklar Mustafa Altıoklar (born 1958) is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is the chairman of the Turkish Film Directors Association and is fluent in English. Although he graduated from the medical faculty of Istanbul University and s ...

- Famous Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. *

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- Famous Turkish author, pioneer of novel writing in Turkey *

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(1985) - Politician, former Minister of Economics, Minister of Foreign Affairs * Mithat Bereket (1966) - Journalist *

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- Politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey *

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- Journalist *

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- President,

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* Can Dündar - Author, Journalist *

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(1962) - Computer Scientist, Professor at Imperial College, London, Member of the French National Academy of Engineering, Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and Member of Academia Europaea *

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- Chair of the Department of Economics,

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- Chairman of Rönesans Construction *

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- Artist *

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- Musician *

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- Anchorman * Aras Onur - Author, poet *

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- Actress *

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(1955)- Chairwoman of

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- Professor of Physics *

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- Actor *

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(2003) - Turkey's first Olympian (along with partner

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) in

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- Founder,

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* Timucin Esen - Actor *

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- Actor

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