İhsan Doğramacı

İhsan Doğramacı (3 April 1915 – 25 February 2010)[1] was a Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent[2] born in modern Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq then Ottoman Empire.

He was offered national political leadership positions such as ministry of foreign affairs and premiership by Cemal Gürsel and Süleyman Demirel, both of which he declined.

He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London and has been an Honorary Scientific Advisor to the International Centre for Childhood Studies in England since 1982.

İhsan Doğramacı co-founded the Assembly of the Parliament of Cultures with Prince Hassan of Jordan and joined members from many nations in Ankara in 2004.

He was a major financial charitable contributor to the UNICEF co-sponsored Turkish educational community campaign "Let's Go to School, Girls".

Sir Horace Phillips described him in his book: 'This is a likable man, emphatic in manner, but gentle with it; sometimes intolerant of those who do not share his ideals.

In the same year, Doğramacı founded The Child Health Department affiliated with Ankara University Medical School.

Professor İhsan Doğramacı also provided charitable financial private scholarship support to university students in medical sciences and music for over 40 years.

The Turkish Foreign Policy Institute of Bilkent University administers an award program of İhsan Doğramacı Prize of International Relations for Peace.

The vision of the İhsan Doğramacı Erbil Foundation was to build a needed and unique school in a region that has had a troubled history.

After the completion of construction, the first students of İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Erbil College began classes in 2010.

İhsan Doğramacı died at Hacettepe University Hospital on 25 February 2010 from multiple organ failure.

İhsan Doğramacı Statue at Bilkent University