AKŞEMSEDDİN ORTAOKULU

Our school is located in Beypazarı, with its historical mansions and bazaar it's a charming town visited by foreign tourists in Ankara. Our school, which started its education in , is located in TOKI housing where socio-economically lower and middle income families of the district in Beypazarı reside. Our school provides education to the disadvantaged students who are transferred from rural areas and villages with the lowest income. Our school has 33 teachers, 2 administrators and 352 students and there are 14 branches, 1 science laboratory, 1 technology design workshop and 1 computing class. More than five thousand Kurdish immigrants have settled in Beypazarı district as seasonal agricultural workers from Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions, and some of the children in the middle school level are educated in our school. There are also Syrian and Afghan refugee children. Since our school is newly opened in the district where multicultural life is dominant, there is no EU project experience including partnership up to today. Our school has 3 English teachers, and there are 5 teachers who know English at advanced level and 10 teachers who speak English at intermediate level. Beypazarı, which is one of the 10 settlement areas should be seen in Turkey and 100 km away from Ankara, has a history of 10 thousand years and it has many historical traces from Hittite, Phrygia, Galat, Roman, Byzantine, Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman periods. It is the only place in Europe where three different species of vulture live together. It is also a natural habitat and breeding site for deer, lynx and wild animals. In Turkey it is the place with the richest number of activities related to nature.