İstanbul (Turkey): Universities

Foundation universities. Part 1

Last modified: 2020-09-20 by ivan sache
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Acıbadem University

Flag of ACÜ - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 5 July 2020

ACÜ (webiste) was established in 2007 by the Acıbadem Health and Education Foundation (Acıbadem Sağlık ve Eğitim Vakfı, est. 28 May 2002).
The university is composed of 4 Faculties, 1 School and 2 Vocational Schools, all dedicated to Health Sciences.
Acıbadem Healthcare Group, founded in 1992 by Mehmet Ali Aydınlar and Armağan Özel, is the world' second largest healthcare chain (21 hospitals, 16 medical centers, 17,000 employees).

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

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020

Altınbaş University

Flag of Altınbaş University - Image by Ivan Sache, 28 December 2017

Altınbaş University (website) was established in 2008 by the Mehmet Altınbaş Education and Culture Foundation (Mehmet Altınbaş Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı).
The university is composed of 8 Schools, 3 Graduate Schools and 3 Vocational Schools.
The university, established as Kemerburgaz University (Kemerburgaz Üniversitesi), adopted its present-day's name on 1 July 2017.
[Hürriyet, 3 July 2017]

Mehmet Altınbaş (1923-2003) initiated pistachio wholesale operations in Gaziantep in the 1950s. His sons established in 1979 the Ali Vakkas Altınbaş jewelry, based in Cyprus. Jewelry activities were initiated in Turkey in 1985. Altınbaş operates the first and single gold plant in Turkey.
Today, Altınbaş Holding (website) has shares in jewelry (Altınbaş, ASSOS, Onsa Refinery), finance (Creditwest group of companies), energy (Alpet group of companies) and logistic (Transal Denizcilik).

The flag of Altınbaş University (photos) is white with the university's emblem.
The bridge on the emblem refers to the Byzantine aqueducts repaired by Mimar Sinan (1489/1490–1588) after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Known to the Byzantines as Pyrgos (lit., "bastion"), the village was renamed to Burgaz by the Turks, and eventually to Kemerburgaz, kemer meaning "an aqueduct".
[ Hürriyet, 16 February 2007]

Flag of the former Kemerburgaz University - Image by Ivan Sache, 28 December 2017

The flag of Kemerburgaz University (photo, photo, photo, photo) was white with the university's emblem.

Ivan Sache, 28 December 2017

VEGA Schools

Flag of VEGA Schools, two versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 30 July 2019

VEGA Schools (VEGA Okulları; website) were established within the structure of Altınhas Holding.
VEGA Schools operate three campuses:
- Sultanbeyli Campus (2014): preschool, primary school and middle school levels;
- Beylikdüzü Campus (2016): preschool, primary school and middle school levels;
- Bahçeşehir Campus (2017): preschool, primary school, middle school and high school levels.

The flag of VEGA Schools (photo) is white with the institute's emblem. The flag is also used with the school's name written beneath the emblem (photo).

Ivan Sache, 30 July 2019

Atlas University

Flag of Atlas University - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 31 August 2020

Atlas University (website) has its campus (Vadi Kampüsü - Valley Campus) located in Kağıthane, in the European part of İstanbul.
The university is composed of 4 Faculties, 2 Schools, 1 Vocational School and 4 Centers, and manages two hospitals.

The flag of Atlas University is blue with the university's emblem.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 5 September 2020

Beykent University

Flag of Beykent University - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 November 2017

Beykent University was established by Law No. 4,282 promulgated on 9 July 1997. The university was founded by the Adem Çelik-Beykent Educational Foundation (Adem Çelik-Beykent Eğitim Vakfı).
The university is composed of 8 Faculties, 3 Schools, 1 Vocational School and 2 Institutes.

The flag of Beykent University (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem.
The colors of the emblem are prescribed as follows (CMYK, graphic charter):

Yellow   0  10  100   0
Blue   100   0    0   0
Black    0   0    0 100

Other flag of Beykent University - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 November 2017

The university sports teams use a celestial blue flag charged with the university's emblem (photo, photo).

Ivan Sache, 30 November 2017

Beykoz University

Flag of Beykoz University - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2020

Beykoz University (website) was established on 7 September 2016 by the Turkey Logistics Research and Education Foundation (Türkiye Lojistik Araştırmaları ve Eğitimi Vakfı - TÜRLEV; founded on 18 July 2007), upgrading the Beykoz Logistics Vocational School (Beykoz Lojistik Meslek Yüksekokulu) established in 2008.
The university is composed of 4 Faculties (Business and Management Sciences, Art and Design, Social Sciences, Engineering and Architecture), 2 Schools (Foreign Languages, Civil Aviation), and 2 Vocational Schools.

The flag of Beykoz University is white with the university's logo (photo, photo, photo, photo)) or emblem (photo), which, according to the graphic charter, should be used only on clothing and goodies.

The logo of the university was designed by Bora Türkkan. It is formed of a rectangle in proportions 1:3.5. The typeface is Helvetica Condensed Bold.
The color specifications are:

           Pantone      CMYK           RGB 
Bordeaux   1815 C     31 92 75 39    122 36 44
Gray        445 C      0  0  0 80     88 89 91

The flag is prescribed in different sizes: 100 cm x 150 cm, 150 cm x 335 cm, 150 cm x 50 cm (gonfanon), and 15 cm x 22.5 cm (table flag).
[Graphic charter]

Unofficial flag of Beykoz University - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020

The flag appears to be sometimes used with the university's emblem (photo), which, according to the graphic charter, should be used only on clothing and goodies.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020

Beykoz Logistics Vocational School

Flag of the Beykoz Logistics Vocational School - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2020

The flag of the Beykoz Logistics Vocational School is white with the school's emblem.

Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2020

Bezmiâlem Foundation University

Flag of BVÜ - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 November 2017

BVÜ (website), established in 2011 by the Directorate General of Foundations, is composed of the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, Health Sciences and Pharmacy, of 4 Institutes and of 1 Vocational School.

The flag of BVÜ (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem.
The emblem features the building housing the university's rectorate, the historical Bezmiâlem hospital erected in 1843.

Ivan Sache, 29 November 2017

Biruni University

Flag of Biruni University - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 July 2020

Biruni University (website), established by Law No. 6,525, passed on 27 February 2014, is composed of 6 Faculties, 2 Institutes, 1 School and 1 Vocational School.
The university is named for Al-Biruni (973-1048), "scholar and polymath of the period of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids and one of the two greatest intellectual figures of his time in the eastern lands of the Muslim world, the other being Ebn Sīnā (Avicenna)."
[Encyclopaedia Iranica]

The flag of the university (photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem. The motto reads "Future of Science".

Ivan Sache & Tomislav Šipek, 18 July 2020

Bosphorus University

Flag of BÜ, three versions - Images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2020

BÜ (website) was established on 10 September 1971, succeeding Robert College. BÜ is composed of 4 Faculties (Arts and Sciences, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Education, Engineering) and 2 Schools (Applied Disciplines, Foreign Languages).

Roberts college was founded by Cyrus Hamlin, an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Christopher Rheinlander Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a wealthy merchant from New York.
Initially Cyrus Hamlin, an ingenious New Englander of versatile talents, came to Turkey in 1839 to start a seminary for boys where he taught until 1860. He met Robert in 1856 during the Crimean War. As Robert's steamer was pulling into the Port of İstanbul, he noticed a boat full of delicious looking white bread. His curiosity aroused, he found out that this bread had been baked by Cyrus Hamlin for the wounded British soldiers hospitalized at the Selimiye Barracks near Üsküdar. Subsequent meetings of these two men, oddly enough both of Huguenot descent, brought about the founding of the oldest American College outside of the United States.

Robert agreed to carry the greatest part of the financial burden while Hamlin was to raise funds in the United States and take over the responsibility of founding the college. Robert College was named after is benefactor, Christopher Rheinlander Robert, and was granted a charter with the power to confer a Bachelor of arts Degree on its graduates. On September 16, 1863, it opened its doors to students with Cyrus Hamlin as its first President. "Overthrown" from the presidency by his son-in-law, George Wahsburn, Hamlin left for the US in 1873, where he died in 1900, never returning to Turkey. Robert died on 1878.
On 26 January 1971, the college's Board of Trustees passed a Resolution encouraging the Turkish government to establish an independent university as the successor of the Robert College.

The flag of Bosphorus University is light blue, or white (phooto), with the university's emblem and with or without text.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020

Demiroğlu Science University

Demiroğlu Science University (website) was established, as Bilim Üniversitesi, by Law No. 5,475 promulgated on 22 March 2006 and published on 28 March 2006 in the Turkish official gazette, no. 26,122. The university is managed by the Turkish Cardiology Foundation (Türk Kardiyoloji Vakfı).
The university was renamed for its founder and president, Pr. Cemşid Demiroğlu (b. 1963), President and CEO of Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals (4 hospitals, 2 medical centers, one of them in London) since 2002.

Flag of Science University, two versions - Images by Tomislav Šipek, 14 July 2020

The flag of Science University (photo, photo, photo) was white with the university's emblem.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020

Doğuş University

Flag of Doğuş University, two versions - Images by Tomislav Šipek, 3 June 2020

Doğuş University (website) was established by the Doğuş Educational Institution in 1995 and authorized by Law No. 4,281 adopted on 9 July 1997 by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
The university is composed of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Law, Engineering, and Fine Arts and Design.

The flag of the university is white (photo) with the university's seal, or red with the counter-colored seal (photo).

Flag of Doğuş University, two versions - Images by Tomislav Šipek, 3 June 2020

The university also uses a white flag with the emblem and name beneath it, and a red flag with the counter-colored emblem.

Former flag of Doğuş University - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 June 2020

The university formerly used a red flag with a different emblem based on letter "D" (photo).

Earlier flag of Doğuş University - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 June 2020

An ealrier flag of the university was blue with a completely different emblem, also based on letter "D".

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 15 June 2020

Fatih University

Flag of Fatih University - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 December 2017

Fatih University was established in 1996 by the Turkish Association of Health and Medical Treatment. The university was composed of 9 Faculties, 5 Institutes ans 3 Vocational Schools.
In the aftermath of the aborted coup of 15 June 2016, Fatih University 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 Fatih University (photo) was white with the university's emblem.

Ivan Sache, 6 December 2017

Golden Horn University

Flag of Golden Horn University - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 January 2018

Golden Horn University (website) was established by Law No. 4,324, published on 14 January 1998 in the Turkish official gazette. The university was founded by the Foundation for Children with Leukemia.
The university is composed of 5 Faculties, 3 Institutes, 3 Schools and 1 Conservatory.

The flag of the university (photo, photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem.
The emblem represents a map of İstanbul's historic peninsula, with the Golden Horn on the left, crossed by two bridges. The university's main campus is located in the borough of Şişhane, located on the northern shore of the Golden Horn, close to Atatürk Bridge.
[University website]

Ivan Sache, 19 January 2018