Its success in the Public Personnel Selection Examination (KPSS) is above Turkey's average.

On January 21, 2011, Turkish surgeon Ömer Özkan and his team successfully performed the country’s first-ever full face transplant at the university's hospital in Antalya.

The 19-year-old patient, Uğur Acar's face was badly burnt in a house fire when he was a baby.

The face and ears of the 27-year-old patient Turan Çolak from İzmir was burnt as he fell into an oven when he was three and half years old.

He was declared brain dead in the evening hours of May 15 after having been in intensive care station for seven days.