Tevfik Sırrı Gür High School (or more formally "Tevfik Sırrı Gür Anatolian High School") is the oldest high school in

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History

The high school was established in 1909 by the

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Ministry of Education. However when Mersin was occupied by the

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in 1918, the commander of the occupying forces closed the school. After the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

, the school was reopened. Beginning by 1926, its curriculum was revised and it continued as a junior high school. In 1946 a new building was constructed thanks to the efforts of the governor Tevfik Sırrı Gür. From then on, it became a high school (), keeping the junior section. In 2005 its curriculum was changed again and it became an

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Statistics

As of 2014 there are 56 teachers and 875 students in the school. There are 32 classrooms, 2 laboratories, a computer room, a conference hall, and a library.School statistics from the official page
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References

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