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Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 November 2024

Presentation of Hacettepe University
Flag of Hacettepe University
Ankara State Conservatory
Faculties
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Law
Hacettepe Technopolis

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Presentation of Hacettepe University

The Chair of Child Health, deemed to be the origin of Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine, was founded as part of the Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University by Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı on 2 February 1954. The foundation stone of the university was laid in 1957 with the Child Health Institute and Hospital within Hacettepe, which began its training, education and research activities and public services in 1958. The Nursing School, School of Medical Technology and School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation were established in 1961. The School of Health Sciences offering education in the fields of Nutrition and Dietetics was founded in 1962. It later took the name of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1963. The School of Basic Sciences, Nursing School, School of Medical Technology, School of Physiotherapy-Rehabilitation, and the School of Physical Therapy were all re-structured under the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Meanwhile, the School of Dentistry was established under the same faculty. Hacettepe Science Center was established in 1965 in order to enable the coordination between the academic units within the university. Hacettepe Medical Center was established in 1966. Hacettepe Medical Center Hospital was founded in the same year.
These nucleus institutions were later chartered as Hacettepe University by Law No. 892, enacted on 8 July 1967, which began educational activities in the Faculties of Medicine, Health Sciences, Sciences and Social Sciences. The School of Home Economics was established in 1968, and the Schools of Pharmacy and Dentistry were transformed into faculties in 1971. Hacettepe University, which was further expanded in the course of time with the establishment of new departments and faculties, built its second campus on an area of 1.500 ha. in Beytepe District, 20 kms. away from the Central Campus. Hacettepe University continues its activities with 14 Faculties, 14 Graduate Schools and Institutes, 2 Applied Schools, 1 Conservatory, 5 Vocational Schools, and 105 Research and Application Centers.
[University website]

İhsan Doğramacı (1915-2010) was a paedatrician and philanthropist of Iraqi Turkmen descent. The founding President of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (1981-1992), he founded in 1984 Bilkent University, the first private university in Turkey. He was the last living signatory of the WHO Constitution (1946). and chaired the Board of UNICEF (1968-1970).

Ivan Sache, 13 June 2017

Flags of Hacettepe University

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

The logo of the university was designed in 1967 by a student, Yücel Tanyeri, now Professor at the Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine:
One day, Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı approached me and asked me to design a logo for the university in three days... However, I had a lot weight on my shoulders those days due to my upcoming exams, and needed a free mind and more time for such a serious work. But there was no turning back once Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı asked something to be done.
I thought of the deer logo I drew for the Theater Club one year ago. The logo represented the Hittites in the Theater Club and the letters "H" and "T" for Hacettepe. In no time, I drew the logo more properly and submitted it to Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı.
Soon the logo was anonymously accepted as the university logo at the Senate Meeting, a fact that I could not quite understand back in those days... But as Hacettepe University developed every day, I realized that it was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me... Moreover, I was honored that Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı asked me to design a logo for Hacettepe University, as he knew well-known and talented artists who could very well assume the responsibility. But he wanted the logo of the university which he founded out of thin air with great efforts to be done by a student of that very university.
I saw the pride and joy Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı took in this during the Logo Ceremony when I was presented a big bronze medallion... One side of the medallion reads “To Yücel Tanveri for winning the Hacettepe University Logo Contest…” and, under that, there is an open book and a burning candle, and the writing "Hacettepe University, 1967". On the other side of the medallion, there is the Hacettepe University Logo and the University Motto "TO THE LEADING EDGE… TOWARD BEING THE BEST...".
[University website]

Ivan Sache, 13 June 2017

image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 November 2024