İsmail Hakkı Tonguç
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Tonguç was born on the 1893 in the village Atmaca in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Sokol in Bulgaria) as the oldest of eight siblings. He attended primary school in his village and high school in Silistre at the Danube river from where he graduated in 1907. After graduating he returned to his family and worked in the fields. In 1914 he was in Istanbul and after several attempts he was able to enter the teachers training school, a boarding school in Kastamonu. After one and a half years in Kastamonu, he demanded his transfer to Istanbul. Arriving in Istanbul in 1916, he learned that the name Hakki was added to his identity card which was a common practice to differentiate the students. After graduation he was spared from military service as a teacher and sent to Germany for further education.[3] He was sent to the teachers train school in Ettlingen near Karlsruhe. After the Occupation of Istanbul at the end of World War I, he was called back and assigned as a teacher in the teachers training school in Eskisehir in 1919. When the allied powers attempted the conquer Eskisehir, Tonguç moved to Ankara. In 1921, he returned to Ettlingen in Germany to complete his studies and returned in 1922. Following he was appointed as a teacher in the teacher training schools in Konya in 1922 and Ankara in 1924.
