Founded in 1996 by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation ISTEK, Yeditepe University aims to raise young people who are pioneers in many fields in Turkey, distinguished academic and administrative staff, contemporary, curious, innovative, who have all the qualifications and equipment needed by the business world, who are well-versed in technology, who are familiar with world culture, and who have strengthened their self-identity in the light of Atatürkist ideas. Our university provides education for the information age with its contemporary academic programs and practices.