Ankara University, Law School

The Ankara University, Law School (Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi formerly known Ankara Adliye Hukuk Mektebi) is a faculty for law of the Ankara University in Turkey.

History
Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of a legal revolution in Turkey by the endeavors of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, on November 5, 1925. It was the first modern university-level institution of the newly founded Republic. The Law School had its first graduates in 1928. Atatürk remarked, "For no other institution do I feel such felicity that I feel for this institution, which will be the warranty of the Republic, and I am glad to reveal and open it" in the opening ceremony thereof.

Authorized abbreviation is AÜHF.

Notable graduates

 * Deniz Baykal – politician and former leader of the Republican People's Party
 * Emine Ülker Tarhan - chairwoman of YARSAV and former leader of Anatolian Party
 * Jülide Gülizar – one of Turkey's first female news presenters
 * Adnan Menderes – former Prime Minister of Turkey
 * Ahmet Necdet Sezer – former President of Turkey
 * Tülay Tuğcu – former chief of the Constitutional Court of Turkey
 * Kemal Güven – former speaker of the Turkish parliament (1973-1977)
 * Uğur Mumcu – investigative journalist for daily Cumhuriyet.
 * Turgut Özakman – writer of Şu Çılgın Türkler
 * Bülent Arınç – Turkish politician
 * Şerafettin Elçi – former Minister of Public Works
 * Selahattin Demirtaş – co-leader of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party
 * Kemal Burkay – politician and writer
 * Çetin Altan – journalist
 * Ece Temelkuran – columnist and writer
 * Doğu Perinçek – Turkish politician
 * Çiğdem Toker – investigative journalist