Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls () is a secondary educational institution located in the Kandilli neighborhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey. Known traditionally as "Kandilli Kız Lisesi", it is one of the oldest girls' high schools of the country and a top-level Anatolian High School. The prominent Young Turk activist, statesman, educational reformer Ahmed Rıza and her sister Selma Rıza intended the school to be opened as early as the first decade of the 20th century as the first public girls' high school in the Ottoman Empire, as the girls branch of
Samsun Atatürk Anatolian High School High-School). On 26 October 1930, the school is visited by M.Kemal Atatürk, and he said one of the most famous quotes of him there, ""Teachers, we set up the Republic but you are the ones who will cause it to rise and make it live. Republic wants you generations which have free mind, free conscience, free knowledge and high character.The real lighter in life is Science."" In 1998 it became an Anatolian High School and took the name "Ataturk Anatolian High School". Samsun Atatürk Anatolian High School Samsun Atatürk Anatolian High School () is an Anatolian High School, educating in