# 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. 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.

## 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. Some of the notable alumni are listed below in alphabetical order of family names.
* Muazzez Abacı, singer
* Filiz Akın (1960), actress
* Derya Akkaynak, Turkish oceanographer
* Mustafa Altıoklar, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter
* Oğuz Atay, Turkish author, pioneer of novel writing in Turkey
* Ali Babacan (1985), Turkish politician, former Minister of Economics, Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Nilüfer Bayar Gürsoy (1939), Daughter of former President of Turkey, Celâl Bayar, politician, memoirist
* Mithat Bereket (1966), Turkish journalist
* Hüsamettin Cindoruk, Turkish politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
* Emin Çölaşan, Turkish journalist
* Ali Doğramacı, former president of Bilkent University
* Can Dündar, Turkish author and journalist
* Timuçin Esen, Turkish actor
* Erol Gelenbe (1962), Turkish-French 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
* Faruk Gül, Turkish-American economicst and academic at Princeton University
* Tamer Karadağlı, Turkish actor
* Nur Koçak, Turkishartist
* Zülfü Livaneli, Turkish musician
* Reha Muhtar, Turkish anchorman
* Aras Onur (2006), Turkish author and poet
* Beren Saat (2002), Turkish actress
* Güler Sabancı (1955), Chairwoman of Sabancı Holding
* Oktay Sinanoğlu, Turkish physical chemist and molecular biophysicist
* Demir Demirkan, Turkish musician
* Kartal Tibet, Turkish actor
* Alper Uçar (2003), Turkey's first Olympian, along with partner Alisa Agafonova, in ice dance
* Murat Vargı, Founder of Turkcell