TED Ankara College Foundation Schools

TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. It consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. Its İncek Campus, considered sizeable with 141,000 square meters of enclosed and over 309,000 square meters of open area, is located in Ankara, Turkey, and is host to 6,000 students and over 700 teachers and support staff.^[1] TED Ankara College delivers both the Turkish curriculum and the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Turkish and English, while French and German are taught as additional languages. Entrance is competitive.

TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Emblem

History

In line with the directives 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 instituted 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 the TED Ankara College Foundation. In 2000, the foundation started the construction of the campus in İncek. In 2003-2004 the establishments were moved from the Kolej district, which was named after the College, to İncek and the old buildings were later reutilized as a new university.

The logo of the schools is derived from the emblem of the TED association.

Notable alumni

As one of the oldest schools founded after the birth of the modern Turkish Republic, TED Ankara College has over 35,000 alumni.^[1] Some of the notable alumni are listed below in alphabetical order of family names.

• Muazzez Abacı - Singer^[2]
• Filiz Akın (1960) - Actress^[3]
• Derya Akkaynak - Oceanographer^[4]
• Mustafa Altıoklar - Famous Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Oğuz Atay - Famous Turkish author, pioneer of novel writing in Turkey^[5]
• Ali Babacan (1985) - Politician, former Minister of Economics, Minister of Foreign Affairs^[6]
• Nilüfer Bayar Gürsoy (1939) - Daughter of former President of Turkey, Celal Bayar, politician, memoirist^[7]
• Mithat Bereket (1966) - Journalist^[8]
• Hüsamettin Cindoruk - Politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey^[2]
• Emin Çölaşan - Journalist^[2]
• Ali Doğramacı - Former President, Bilkent University^[2]
• Can Dündar - Author, journalist
• Timuçin Esen - Actor
• Erol Gelenbe (1962) - Computer scientist, former Professor at Université de Liège, Université Paris-Saclay, Duke University, University of Central Florida]], Imperial College London, Member of the French Academy of Technologies, The Science Academy Society of Turkey, Academia Europaea, Polish Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, Hungarian Academy of Sciences^[9]
• Faruk Gül - Professor of Economics at Princeton University
• Erman Ilıcak - Chairman of Rönesans Construction
• Tamer Karadağlı - Actor
• Nur Koçak - Artist
• Zülfü Livaneli - Musician^[10]
• Reha Muhtar - Anchorman^[11]
• Aras Onur (2006) - Author, poet^[12]
• Beren Saat (2002) - Actress^[13]
• Güler Sabancı (1955)- Chairwoman of Sabancı Holding^[14]
• Oktay Sinanoğlu - Professor of Physics
• Kartal Tibet - Actor^[2]
• Alper Uçar (2003) - Turkey's first Olympian (along with partner Alisa Agafonova) in ice dance^[15]
• Murat Vargı - Founder, Turkcell^[16]

See also

• List of high schools in Turkey
• TED Ankara Kolejliler, the associated sports club
• ÖSS

References

1. "History". TED Ankara Koleji. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
2. Odabaşı, Harun (2001-08-11). "Ankara'nın da TED'i var". Aksiyon (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
3. "Filiz Akın Köksal (Board of Trustees)". TED Üniversitesi. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
4. Niğdelioğlu, Ayfer (December 2019). "Su Altından Çıkan Su'suz Fotoğraflar" (PDF). TED Ankara Kolejliler (in Turkish). pp. 6–7. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
5. "1951 mezunumuz yazar Oğuz Atay'ı doğumunun 86. yılında saygı ve sevgiyle anıyoruz". Facebook (in Turkish). 11 October 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
6. Faruk Bildirici (29 May 2005). "Kolej yıllığında bile yazılı çok iyi alışverişçidir Ali Babacan" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
7. "İçimin Renkleri" (PDF) (in Turkish). Bağlam Yayıncılık. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
8. "Mithat Bereket's bio on the website of Pusula". Archived from the original on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
9. Çaglayan, Professor Ufuk (2005). "Erol Gelenbe's Career and Contributions". Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3733. pp. 966–970. doi:10.1007/11569596_98. ISBN 978-3-540-29414-6.
10. "Zülfü Livaneli: Ben yerli malı giyiyorum" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 31 October 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
11. "SABAH - 08/07/2006 - Reha Muhtar".
12. "Mezunumuz, Şair ve Yazar Aras Onur ('06) Lise Kısmımıza Konuk Oldu" (in Turkish). 24 May 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
13. "Beren Saat '02: "Hep Sezgilerimi Dinleyerek Yaşadım. Beni Hiç Yanıltmadılar" (PDF). TED Ankara Kolejliler (in Turkish). No. 90. September 2007. pp. 42–43. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
14. "Sabanci Holding Basın Açıklaması" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2013-09-14.
15. "Alper UÇAR'03 Türkiye'nin Gururu Oldu" (PDF). TED Ankara Kolejliler (in Turkish). No. 105. March 2011. p. 17. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
16. "Mv Holdi̇ng". mvholding Turkey. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02.

External links

• TED Ankara College Website

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