Celal Bayar, the President of the Republic of Türkiye, with the assistance of Batur Ardıç, operate an excavator at the groundbreaking ceremony of METU, October 2 1957

Middle East Technical University (METU) started its work rapidly to have a modern campus immediately after its establishment. At that time, education was carried out in barracks and although there was no final campus area yet, the campus plan proposed by G. Holmes Perkins from the University of Pennsylvania was accepted. The land behind Yalıncak Village and the Etimesgut Sugar Factory buildings were evaluated as alternatives for the campus. However, in order to speed up the process, a symbolic g...
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