İstanbul (Turkey): Universities

Foundation universities, part 4

Last modified: 2020-09-20
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Okan University

Flag of Okan University, current and former versions - Imagse by Tomislav Šipek, 9 July 2020

Okan University (website) was established by the Okan Culture, Education, and Sports Foundation in 1999; academic life started in 2003-2004.
The university is composed of 9 Faculties, 1 School, 2 Institutes and 2 Vocational Schools.

Okan Holding A.S. engages in construction works and investments businesses. The company’s construction projects include hotels, food, textile, trade centers and plazas, residence, infrastructure, tourism, banks, health, energy, and other construction works. It also invests in external trade, food, tourism, energy, telecommunications, textiles, finance, and construction industries in Turkic Republics, primarily in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The company has operations in Turkey and Kazakhstan. Okan Holding A.S. was founded in 1972 and is based in İstanbul.
[Company profile]

The flag of Okan University (photo) is white with the university's emblem.
The former flag of Okan University (photo, photo, photo; video) was white with a slightly different emblem and the university's name beneath it.

Table flag of Okan University - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 9 July 2020

The table flag of the university was blue with the university's former emblem.

Ivan Sache & Tomislav Šipek, 9 July 2020

Özyeğin University

Flag of Özyeğin University - Image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2018

ÖzÜ (website), established on 18 May 2007 by the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation, is composed of 6 Faculties, 3 Graduate Schools and 2 Schools.
Hüsnü M. Özyeğin (b. 1944), once considered as the richest man in Turkey, is the biggest individual supporter of schools in the country.
[The New York Times, 14 December 2007]

The flag of ÖzÜ (photo, photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem.

Ivan Sache, 8 February 2018

Sabancı University

Flag of Sabancı University, two versions - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 24 June 2020

Sabancı University (website) was established in 1979 by the Sabancı Foundation (Sabancı Vakfı - VAKSA, founded in 1974).
The university is composed of 2 Faculties (Engineering and Natural Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences), and of the Sabancı Business School.

Hacı Ömer Sabancı (1906-1966) is the founder of the first companies to constitute the basis on which the industrial firms that make up the present-day Sabancı Group were built.
Hacı Ömer Sabancı was born in Akçakaya, a small village in the province of Kayseri in Central Anatolia. He lost his father when he was only five and, at the age of fourteen, left his native village to try his fortune in the Adana cotton region, travelling the whole distance of 450 kms on foot.
He began his new life in Adana as a labourer in the cotton plantations but after only one or two years he had saved enough to set up a modest commercial enterprise. His remarkable initiative, far-sightedness and unflinching resolution added one link after another to the chain of successes built up over the years. He was responsible for the foundation of enterprises such as Marsa, Akbank and Bossa, companies which constituted the first steps towards the creation of the Sabancı Group, now the largest private holding in Turkey.
[Sabancı Holding]

The flag of Sabancı University is white (photo, photo), or blue, with the university's emblem.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020

Süleyman Şah University

Flag of Süleyman Şah University, two versions - Images by Tomislav Šipek, 11 June 2020

In the aftermath of the aborted coup of 15 June 2016, Süleyman Şah University, established in 2010, was among the 15 universities closed down by the Decree proclaiming the State of Emergency, adopted on 23 June 2016, for alleged "links with the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ, the name given to the Gülen movement by the Turkish government).

The flag of Süleyman Şah University was white with the university's emblem.

Tomislav Šipek, 11 June 2020

Turkish-German University

Flag of TAU, as seen on German News, 29 April 2014 - Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 April 2014

The flag of the Turkish-German University (website) is white with the university's emblem in its centre. The emblem displays the acronym "taü" in stylized, dark grey lower case letters. The upper left part of the "a" and the dots on the "ü" are turquoise blue.

Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 April 2014

Üsküdar University

Flag of Üsküdar University - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 February 2018

Üsküdar University (website) was established on 3 March 2011, as a thematic university dedicated to Psychology and Behavioral Health Sciences.
The university was founded by the Human Values and Mental Health Foundation (İDER), until 2002 the Protection of Humanitarian Values and Social Solidarity Foundation (İDEF, est. 1997).
The university is composed of 4 Faculties, 5 Institutes and 1 Vocational School.

The flag of the university (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem.

Blue represents infinity, green represents health. The color turquoise is used in holistic medicine as it has healing and tranquilizer effect. Being a university representing behavioral sciences, turquoise color is preferred for this purpose.
The four lines represent the four main principles of the university; Criticizable, Liberalism, Pluralism and Participation. As a University, we give importance to democracy and we express it in our logo.
The Maiden's Tower is thought to represent the grace of youthfulness, the compassion of the family, the excitement of youth, and the guidance of science.
Üsküdar represents the center of knowledge, culture and art, the intersection of wisdom of nature, western philosophy and the conquest of İstanbul.
[University website]

Ivan Sache, 20 February 2018

Yeditepe University

Flag of Yeditepe University, two versions - Images by Tomislav Šipek, 15 July 2020

Yeditepe University (website) was established in 1996 by the İstanbul Educational and Cultural Foundation (İstanbul Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı - İSTEK).
The university is composed of 13 Faculties, 2 Schools and 1 Vocational School.

The flag of Yeditepe University is white with the university's emblem (photo, photo).
The emblem prescribed by the university's graphic charter is composed of "a blue triangle with a green globe filing". The name of the university is written, as "YEDİTEPE ÛNIVERSITESI" or "YEDİTEPE UNIVERSITY", either beneath the triangle, on a single line, or at its right, on two lines. Accordingly, the emblems used on the university's flags are not compliant with the charter.
[Graphic charter]

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020