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'''Istanbul Technical University''' (''İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi'') is an international technical university located in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]. It is the world's third-oldest <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080115092116/http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/worlds_oldest_universities </ref> [[technical university]] dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey. ITU is ranked 173rd worldwide (1st nationwide) in the field of "Engineering & Technology", and 307th worldwide (1st nationwide) in the field of "Natural Sciences" by the [[QS World University Rankings]] in 2016.<ref>https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/engineering-and-technology/2015</ref><ref>https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/natural-sciences/2015</ref>
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Acceptance to the university is competitive, and entrance to most of its departments requires scoring among the top 1% of the nearly 2 million applicants in the [[Student Selection and Placement System|national university entrance examination]] known as "YKS".<ref>https://dokuman.osym.gov.tr/pdfdokuman/2019/YKS/tablo4_06082019.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.tercihkocu.com/istanbul-teknik-universitesi-taban-puanlari-ve-basari-siralamalari/</ref> Graduates of ITU have received many [[Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey|TUBITAK]] science and [[Turkish Academy of Sciences|TUBA]] awards. Numerous graduates have also become members of the academy of sciences in the [[United States|U.S.A]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[Russia]].
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The university has 99 undergraduate, 192 graduate programs, 14 faculties, 154.000m² lab and 12 research centers. The lecturer / student ratio is 1/25.<ref>http://sayilarla.itu.edu.tr/</ref>
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==Triga Mark-2 Nuclear Reactor==
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ITU's [[nuclear reactor]] of Triga Mark-2 is in the Maslak campus. It is located at the Energy Institute.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110616111938/http://www.energy.itu.edu.tr/triga.htm</ref>
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==Notable alumni==
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Many of the graduates take role in the development of Turkey, with many of them playing significant roles in constructing bridges, roads and buildings. For instance, [[Emin Halid Onat]] and Ahmet Orhan Arda are architects of [[Anıtkabir]]. [[Süleyman Demirel]] (civil engineer) and [[Turgut Özal]] (electrical engineer) are the two former presidents of Turkey. [[Necmettin Erbakan]] (mechanical engineer) and [[Binali Yildirim]] (naval architecture and ocean engineering) were former prime ministers of Turkey.
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=== Politicians and public figures===
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[[Image:Turgut Özal cropped.jpg|thumbnail|150px|Turgut Özal]]
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* [[Ahmet Arslan (politician)|Ahmet Arslan]] (born 1962) -  Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication and a Member of Parliament for [[Kars]]
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* [[Fatih Birol]] (born 1958) -  Executive Director of the [[International Energy Agency]] (2015-present), Chief Economist of the [[International Energy Agency]] (1995-2015)
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* [[Bedrettin Dalan]] (born 1941) - former Mayor of [[Istanbul]] (1984–1989)
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* [[Vedat Ali Dalokay]] (1927–1991) - former Mayor of [[Ankara]] (1973–1977)
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* [[Süleyman Demirel]] (1924-2015) - former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime minister (five times between 1965–1993)
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* [[Aytaç Durak]] (1938-2014) - Mayor of [[Adana]] (1994–2014)
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* [[Necmettin Erbakan]] (1926-2011) - former Prime minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
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* [[Veysel Eroğlu]] (born 1948) - Minister of Environment and former Head of [[State Hydraulic Works (Turkey)|State Hydraulic Works]]
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* [[Safa Giray]] (1931-2011) - former [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (1991)
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* [[Recai Kutan]] (born 1930) - President of [[Felicity Party]]
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* [[Turgut Özal]] (1927–1993) - former [[President of Turkey]] (1989–1993) and [[Prime minister of Turkey|prime minister]] (1983–1989)
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* [[Ruhsar Pekcan]] (born 1958) - Minister of Trade (2018-Present)
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* [[Binali Yıldırım]] (born 1955) - Prime Minister, maritime engineer and former  Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
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* [[Taner Yildiz]]  (born 1962) - Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2009-2015)
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* [[İsmet Yılmaz]] (born 1961) - Minister of National Education of Turkey and former [[Speaker of the Grand National Assembly]]
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===Business ===
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* [[İshak Alaton]] (born 1927) - co-founder of [[Alarko Holding]]
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* Halil Boztepe (born 1970) - CEO of Tepe Kimya
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* [[Üzeyir Garih]] (1929–2001) - co-founder of Alarko Holding
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* [[Sadi Gülçelik]] (born 1929) - co-founder of [[Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş.|ENKA Holding]]
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* Mehmet Hacim Kamoy (1922-2004) - founding CEO of [[ASELSAN]]
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* [[Temel Kotil]] (born 1959) - CEO of [[Turkish Airlines]]
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* [[Volkan Sevilgen]] (born 1980) - CTO and co-founder of [[Temblor, Inc.]]
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* [[Şarık Tara]] (born 1930) - co-founder of [[Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş.|ENKA Holding]]
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* Faruk Yarman (born 1954) - CEO of [[HAVELSAN]]
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=== Science and technology ===
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* [[Zeynep Ahunbay]] (born 1946) - architect
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* [[Ali Akansu]] (born 1958) - electrical & computer engineering and scientist, professor at [[NJIT]]
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* [[Attila Aşkar]] (born 1944) - [[civil engineer]] and [[Applied mathematics|applied]] [[mathematician]], [[Rector (academia)|president and provost ''(rector)'']] of the [[Koç University]]. ''(2001 - 2009)''
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* [[Ivet Bahar]] - computational biologist, professor at [[University of Pittsburgh]]
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* [[Ali Erdemir]] - [[material scientist]]
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* [[A. Cemal Eringen]] (born February 15, 1921 in [[Kayseri]], [[Turkey]] - died December 7, 2009) - [[civil engineer]] and [[Applied mathematics|applied]] [[mathematician]]; professor of [[continuum physics]] in the departments of [[civil engineering]] and [[geological engineering]], the founder of the program in [[Computational mathematics|computational]] and [[applied mathematics]] at [[Princeton University]]. ''[[Eringen Medal]]'' is given every year to a most successful scientist in the fields of [[continuum mechanics]], [[elasticity (physics)|elasticity]], [[plasticity (physics)|plasticity]], [[rheology]] and [[materials science]] in his honor.
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* [[Doğan Kuban]] (born 1926) - [[architectural historian]]
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* [[Emin Halid Onat]] (1908–1961) - architect of [[Anıtkabir]] and first dean of [[ITU School of Architecture]]
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* [[Mehmet Toner]] (born 1958) -  [[biomedical engineering]] scientist, professor at [[MIT]]
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* [[Karl von Terzaghi]] (1883–1963) - mechanical engineer, founder of [[soil mechanics]]
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=== Art ===
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* [[Funda Arar]] (born 1975) - pop singer
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* [[Ahmet Aslan]] (born 1968) - musician
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* [[Oğuz Atay]] (1934–1977) - novelist
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* [[Murat Boz]] - pop singer
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* [[Güler Duman]] (born 1967) - Turkish folk music
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* [[Berke Hatipoğlu]] (born 1976) - architect, guitarist of the rock band [[Redd]]
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* [[Erkan Oğur]] (born 1954) - musician
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* [[Ziynet Sali]] - singer
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* [[Ahmet Yalçınkaya]] (born 1963) - poet
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=== Political activists ===
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* [[Harun Karadeniz]] (1942–1975) - 1970s student leader
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=== Others ===
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* [[Behruz Çinici]] - architect of [[METU]] Ankara Campus
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* [[Mehmet Gümüşburun]] - bureaucrat
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* [[Sabiha Gürayman]] - first Turkish woman engineer
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* [[Waleed A. Samkari]] - Commander of [[Royal Maintenance Corps (Jordan)]]
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=== Dropouts ===
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* [[Yılmaz Erdoğan]] (born 1967) - actor
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* [[Orhan Pamuk]] (born 1952) - novelist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Laureate in Literature]] (2006)
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MottoPioneer Through The Ages
Formation1773
HeadquartersIstanbul, Turkey
TypeState technical university
Many of the graduates take role in the development of Turkey.

Istanbul Technical University (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest [1] technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey. ITU is ranked 173rd worldwide (1st nationwide) in the field of "Engineering & Technology", and 307th worldwide (1st nationwide) in the field of "Natural Sciences" by the QS World University Rankings in 2016.[2][3]

Acceptance to the university is competitive, and entrance to most of its departments requires scoring among the top 1% of the nearly 2 million applicants in the national university entrance examination known as "YKS".[4][5] Graduates of ITU have received many TUBITAK science and TUBA awards. Numerous graduates have also become members of the academy of sciences in the U.S.A, Britain and Russia.

The university has 99 undergraduate, 192 graduate programs, 14 faculties, 154.000m² lab and 12 research centers. The lecturer / student ratio is 1/25.[6]

Triga Mark-2 Nuclear Reactor

ITU's nuclear reactor of Triga Mark-2 is in the Maslak campus. It is located at the Energy Institute.[7]

Notable alumni

Many of the graduates take role in the development of Turkey, with many of them playing significant roles in constructing bridges, roads and buildings. For instance, Emin Halid Onat and Ahmet Orhan Arda are architects of Anıtkabir. Süleyman Demirel (civil engineer) and Turgut Özal (electrical engineer) are the two former presidents of Turkey. Necmettin Erbakan (mechanical engineer) and Binali Yildirim (naval architecture and ocean engineering) were former prime ministers of Turkey.

Politicians and public figures

Turgut Özal

Business

Science and technology

Art

Political activists

Others

Dropouts


 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Süleyman Demirel1 November 192417 June 2015TurkeyPoliticianTurkish PM
Necmettin Erbakan29 October 192627 February 2011TurkeyPolitician
Academic
Engineer		Prime Minister that was forced by the deep state and military to step down.
Şarık Tara22 April 193028 June 2018TurkeyBillionaire
Businessperson		Turkish single Bilderberger billionaire businessman; made fortune on building U.S. embassy buildings
Ahmet Tokus191928 May 1990TurkeyPoliticianTurkish politician, founder of Middle East Technical University.
Binali Yıldırım20 December 1955TurkeyPoliticianTurkish PM the Turkey/deep state/CIA tried totopple
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References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080115092116/http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/worlds_oldest_universities
  2. ↑ https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/engineering-and-technology/2015
  3. ↑ https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/faculty-rankings/natural-sciences/2015
  4. ↑ https://dokuman.osym.gov.tr/pdfdokuman/2019/YKS/tablo4_06082019.pdf
  5. ↑ https://www.tercihkocu.com/istanbul-teknik-universitesi-taban-puanlari-ve-basari-siralamalari/
  6. ↑ http://sayilarla.itu.edu.tr/
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110616111938/http://www.energy.itu.edu.tr/triga.htm
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