Hacettepe University Medical School began with the establishment of The Child Health Department affiliated with Ankara University Medical School on February 2, 1954.

The emblem of the university was designed in 1967 by Dr. Yücel Tanyeri, then a second year medical student, in the likeness of a stag – the symbol of a Hittite deity discovered at the royal tombs in Alacahöyük.

[1] On February 24, 2011, Turkish surgeon Dr. Serdar Nasır and his team successfully performed the country's second full face transplant at the university's hospital in Ankara after almost one month the first transplant of its sort in Turkey.

The 25-year-old patient, Cengiz Gül's face was badly burnt in a television tube implosion accident when he was two years old.

(his family did not allow his identity to be revealed), who experienced brain death two days before the surgery following a motorcycle accident which occurred on February 17.