Ankara University, Law School

Ankara University, School of Law

Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi

Type| Public
Established| November 5, 1925
Location|

Ankara

Turkey

39°55′45″N 32°52′19″E﻿ / ﻿39.92906°N 32.87182°E﻿ / 39.92906; 32.87182
Website| www.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

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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

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* 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
* Kamil Tolon \- Turkish inventor

## See also

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* Ankara University
* Turkish universities

## References

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1. ^ "Tarihçe – Hukuk Fakültesi". 2019-11-03. Archived from the original on 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
2. ^ McKeegan, Alice (2011-03-15). "First Anchorwoman Of TRT, Jülide Gülizar Dies". Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. Retrieved 2011-03-27.

## External links

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* Ankara University, Law School

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