Istanbul Girls High School

Istanbul Girls High School or İstanbul Kız Lisesi was the first girls school established by the state in Ottoman Turkey. Inaugurated on March 21, 1850, by the Sadrazam Mustafa Reshid Pasha, one of the architects of the Tanzimat reforms, in a building donated by the Bezmialem Valide Sultan, mother of Abdulmecid, at the beginning it was a "rüşdiye", or secondary school. The school took the name İnas İdadisi (Girls Lycee) in 1911 and later İnas Sultanisi (Imperial High School for Girls). During most of the republican period in Turkey, the school was known under the name İstanbul Kiz Lisesi, but always related to its founding mother Bezm-i Alem.