In the Ottoman Empire each, and every millet established a schooling system serving its members. Education, therefore, was largely divided on ethnic and religious lines: few non-Muslims attended schoo
Beyazıt State Library was founded in 1884.
Girl Reciting the Qurān (Kuran Okuyan Kız), an 1880 painting by the Ottoman polymath Osman Hamdi Bey, whose works often showed women engaged in educational activities.
Istanbul University is the oldest university in Turkey. In Ottoman times Western sources called it the "University of Constantinople".
Istanbul High School (Istanbul Erkek Lisesi in Turkish) was founded in 1886.
The Imperial Military School of Medicine, or the Imperial School of Medicine was a school of medicine in Ottoman Constantinople. The school has changed locations several times. The well-known building
Education in the Ottoman Empire
…stated that the Ottoman Empire established its university system later than Austria-Hungary and Russia had. In 1827, Sultan Mahmud II established the Imperial School of Medicine, a military medical school. In 1867 the Civilian Medical School began operation, and the two merged into a single medical school in 1909. Another medical…
Hamidiye campus of University of Health Sciences (Turkey), originally the Imperial School of Medicine.