Abdullah Gül University first steps towards founding Abdullah Gul University were taken in 2007, by the Kayseri City Council and other city notables. The aim was to raise the profile of education in Kayseri in line with the city’s own vision of its development. The University was named after the prominent Kayseri citizen and 11th president of the Turkish Republic, Abdullah Gül and was formally inaugurated on July 21, 2010. The university’s first campus was established on the former site of Turkey’s first industrial complex. In the future, the university will also open a second campus, known as Mimar Sinan. AGU’s current campus
Lady Abdullah Haroon Lady Abdullah Haroon Lady Abdullah Haroon (1886–1966), whose real name was Nusrat Khanum, (Urdu: ) was a socialite before the independence of Pakistan. Haroon was born in a Shia family in Iran, but later settled in Karachi, where in 1914 she was married local business man & politician Abdullah Haroon. She founded the organization Anjuman-i-Khawateen to improve the social and economic condition of the women of Sindh. In 1938, she was nominated to the Women's Central Subcommittee of the All India Muslim League and later she was also elected President of the Sindh Provincial Women's Subcommitte. She was a devoted