TED Ankara College Foundation Schools
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TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. College consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Incek Campus is located in Ankara, Turkey.
History
At the request of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish Education Association (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 TED, and was the first private Turkish school established after the foundation of Republic of Turkey to instruct in English. 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, Ankara. In 2003-2004 they moved their establishments from Kolej, Ankara 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 International Baccalaureate Organization - (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, Ankara.
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.[1]
Notable alumni
in alphabetical order of family names
- Muazzez Abacı - Singer[2]
- Filiz Akın - Actress
- Derya Akkaynak - Oceanographer[3]
- Mustafa Altıoklar - Famous Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.
- Oğuz Atay - Famous Turkish author, pioneer of novel writing in Turkey[4]
- Ali Babacan (1985) - Politician, former Minister of Economics, Minister of Foreign Affairs[5]
- Mithat Bereket (1966) - Journalist[6]
- Hüsamettin Cindoruk - Politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey[2]
- Emin Çölaşan - Journalist[2]
- Ali Doğramacı - President, Bilkent University[2]
- Can Dündar - Author, Journalist
- Erol Gelenbe (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[7]
- Faruk Gül - Chair of the Department of Economics, Princeton University
- Erman Ilıcak - Chairman of Rönesans Construction
- Nur Koçak - Artist
- Zülfü Livaneli - Musician
- Reha Muhtar - Anchorman[8]
- Aras Onur - Author, poet
- Beren Saat - Actress
- Güler Sabancı (1955)- Chairwoman of Sabancı Holding[9]
- Oktay Sinanoğlu - Professor of Physics
- Kartal Tibet - Actor[2]
- Alper Uçar (2003) - Turkey's first Olympian (along with partner Alisa Agafonova) in ice dance[10]
- Murat Vargı - Founder, Turkcell[11]
- Timucin Esen - Actor
- Tamer Karadağlı - Actor
See also
- List of high schools in Turkey
- TED Ankara Kolejliler, the associated sports club
- ÖSS
References
- ^ http://library.tedankara.k12.tr/
- ^ a b c d e Ankara'nın da TED'i var, Harun Odabaşı, Aksiyon, 2001-08-11, last accessed 2014-02-14.
- ^ Niğdelioğlu, Ayfer (December 2019). "Su Altından Çıkan Su'suz Fotoğraflar" (PDF). TED Ankara Kolejliler (in Turkish). pp. 6–7. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ "1951 mezunumuz yazar Oğuz Atay'ı doğumunun 86. yılında saygı ve sevgiyle anıyoruz". Facebook (in Turkish). 11 October 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ Kolej yıllığında bile yazılı çok iyi alışverişçidir Ali Babacan, Faruk Bildirici, Hürriyet, 2005-02-29, last accessed 2014-02-14.
- ^ "Mithat Bereket's bio on the website of Pusula". Archived from the original on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ Erol Gelenbe's Carrier and Contributions, by Ufuk Caglayan
- ^ "SABAH - 08/07/2006 - Reha Muhtar".
- ^ Sabanci Holding Basın Açıklaması Archived 2013-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kolejliler, issue 105, March 2011, URL last accessed 2014-02-17.
- ^ "Mv Holdi̇ng". www.mvholding.com.tr. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02.