Organizations shaping AI

Leading public research university in Ankara, Turkey (METU), strong in engineering and computer science.

Bilkent University is a private research university founded in 1984 in Ankara, Turkey, and was Turkey's first private university, with active computer science and engineering programs.

Bahçeşehir University is a private Turkish university founded in 1998 in Istanbul, offering programs in engineering and computer science with international partnerships.

Boğaziçi University is a public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1863 as Robert College — the first American higher-education institution outside the United States — and transferred to the Turkish state in 1971; it retains English as its language of instruction.

Its Koç University–İş Bank Artificial Intelligence Center brings together researchers across engineering, medicine and the social sciences, with work spanning language, vision, robotics, interpretability and machine learning for health.