ABSTRACT

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Ankara University’s school of Medicine kept and raised many academicians in terms of almost every sub branches Orthopaedics from the very first day of establishment, until today. Masters as Professor Güngör Sami Çakırgil and Professor Rıdvan Ege were played an important roles on the basis of development of spinal surgery in a certain manner which also known as “Ecole of Ankara Medical School”. After these two masters, three giant plane -threes took over the mission and they were also a pioneer and contributor to develop Turkish Spinal Surgery countrywide. In these biography series, it has been told the life stories of these milestones and their endeavors’ for development of Turkish Spinal Surgery in three chapters. Third chapter is including the studies of Professor Tarık Yazar. On behalf of their students, we also aimed to emphasize our appreciations and our gratitude to them.