Bafra Science High School, Turkey

Cars of the Revolution

 I want to mention a team as a whole. The team is the one who engeneered and designed from scratch the first ever automobile in Turkey, Cars of Devrim. The enterprise supported by Cemal GÜRSEL, president of Turkish Republic. However there were too many people including the society believing the enterprise wouldn't be accomplished and exporting was better instead of wasting money. Despite of problems, disappointments, failures, dearth of money they fortunately succeeded to produce first ever automobile designed and engeneered from scratch in Turkey. There is also a film in the name of Cars of the Revolution showing efforts and solidarity of the engineers. I appreciate their ambition. As the most important one I am proud of the team.

Farabi

Farabi has contributed a great deal to science, philosophy, logic, sociology, medicine, mathematics and music. His main contributions seem to have been to philosophy, logic, and sociology, and, of course, also stands out as an Encyclopedia. As a philosopher, he can be classified as a Yeniplatonist (Neoplatonist) who tries to reconcile the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle with the philosophy of Islam, and in addition to his numerous books on several other topics covering his original contributions, Aristotle's physics, meteorology, logic, etc. wrote some rich explanations on it. In the Islamic philosophical tradition, after Aristotle known as "first teacher", he is called "Second Teacher" (al-muallimu-n-sani). I am proud of what Farabi has done.

Tomris 

She is the first women ruler in the world history and she is a turkish woman she was a very intelligent and powerful ruler.

Mehmed II

Mehmed II, also known as The Conqueror is one of the famous sultans of Ottoman Empire with his intelligence. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire. On his accession as conqueror of Constantinople, aged 21, Mehmed was reputed to be fluent in several languages, including Turkish, Serbian, Arabic, Persian, Greek and Latin. He ruled the Ottoman Empire for 30 years and joined 25 campaigns himself. He was a very strict statesman and a very brave soldier.

YUNUS EMRE 

One of the greatest and the deepest poets of the Turkish folk literature. Yunus Emre is a great poet who managed to turn the Anatolian dialect into a language of literature and who succeeded in reciting poetry and chanting hymns in pure Turkish. 

He has written about issues which looked extremely complex. Written in a pure and easily understood Turkish, some of his poems, which seem to be over simple at first glance, carry a deep meaning and have a certain quality which grips the reader and excites him, weaving a special magic. Yunus, in most of his poems declares his great love for the God. He has felt the elusive excitement of the love of God and also made others feel it.

Nene Hatun 

She was born in 1857 in the town of Çeperler in the Pasinler district of Erzurum. During the War of Independence, Nene Hatun, who was in Erzurum, worked for the struggle of motherland by leaving her young child, who is 3 years old at home, in order to defend the Aziziye bastion here. She was about 20 years old. At the age of 98, he died of pneumonia and was buried in the saint's bastion he had struggled with. Nene Hatun passed away in 1955 and a few months before her death, she was chosen as the heroic Turkish mother of the year. The statue of this heroic Turkish woman is in the footprint of the saint in Erzurum. The heroic Turkish woman Nene Hatun is one of the most important symbols of the War of Independence.

Sabiha Gökçen was born on March 22, 1913 in Bursa as the sixth child of Mr. Mustafa İzzet and Mrs. Hayriye. After the death of parents, Atatürk adopted her when he visited Bursa in 1925 and gave her the surname of “Gökçen”. Gökçen was sent to Crimea, Russia along with 7 male students and completed her education of gliding. She enrolled in Eskişehir Military Aviation School in 1936 and assumed the title of “The First Female Combat Pilot” by successfully completing her duties with fighter and bomber airplanes. In 1937, she was awarded with “9 number Jeweled Medal” of the Turkish Aeronautical Association as she is the first female pilot of the association. Having been chosen as one of the 20 aviators who put their stamps on world aviation history in the Eagles Meeting held in America in 1996, Sabiha Gökçen was the first female aviator to be awarded this prize. Sabiha Gökçen died at the age of 88 on March 22, 2001. Sabiha Gökçen is a source of inspiration for all female pilots in the world.

SEYİT ONBAŞI

 His real name is Seyit Ali Çabuk. Seyit Onbaşı was born in September, 1889, in the village of Çamlık (Manastır) in Havran district of Balıkesir. His father's name is Abdurrahman, and his mother's name is Emine. He joined the Ottoman Army in 1909 and took part in the Balkan War. With the start of the First World War, he started to work as a gunner in Çanakkale Front. On March 18, 1915, the Allied fleet attacked to cross the Dardanelles. Meanwhile, Seyit Onbaşı was on the Rumeli Mecidiye Bastion. The intense counter fire of the Turkish artillery and the mines previously laid by the Nusret mine ship were enough to repel this attack. As a result of the shots made by the enemy, the bullet that lifted the bullet of the ball on the bastion was smashed.

Thereupon, Seyit Ali backed the bullets weighing 215 kilograms and placed them in the gun stock. Seyit Ali dealt slight damage to Ocean in the first two shots, while in the third shot he did great damage to the English battleship Ocean. The thrown bullet caused the ship to lie on its side. Ocean battleship, which then hit one of the mines laid by the Nusret mine ship, soon capsized and sank. As a result of this success, Seyit Ali was given the title of corporal. One day after the Çanakkale War, Seyit Onbaşı was asked to take his photo on the back of the cannonball. Seyit Ali could not lift the bullet this time. Seyit Onbaşı said, "Let there be war again, I will raise it again." after that his photo could be taken with a wooden bullet. Returning to his village in 1918, Seyit Ali continued his forestry and coal works. With the Surname Law enacted in 1934, it quickly got the surname. seyit Onbaşı died in 1939 due to tuberculosis.