Central Turkey College

{{Short description|Former college in Gaziantep, Turkey}}

:There was also a Central Turkey College in Maraş.

Central Turkey College (sometimes called Aintab College) was a Christian high school founded between 1874 and 1876 by the American Mission Board in Aintab, Ottoman Empire (now Gaziantep, Turkey). It was on a site west of the city, and also had a branch for girls in town. It was burned down in 1891, but was rebuilt.

Its students were largely Armenian Protestants, but non-Armenians and non-Protestants also attended. One of its most famous graduates, for example, was Ashur Yousif, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church and a future instructor at Euphrates College in Harput.

As a result of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1915 Armenian genocide, the college was transferred to the Syrian city of Aleppo,{{Cite web |url=http://www.synod-sl.org/?page_id=656 |title=Synod-SL:Aleppo College |access-date=2012-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113221450/http://www.synod-sl.org/?page_id=656 |archive-date=2014-01-13 |url-status=dead }} through the efforts of its director John E. Merrill (1898–1937),[http://www.syrianhistory.com/Theme/key/Aleppo+College Syrian History:Aleppo College] where it became known as Aleppo College or the Aleppo American College.{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1478-1913.1967.tb01239.x | volume=57 | title=Aleppo College: Failure or Fulfilment? | year=1967 | journal=The Muslim World | pages=42–45 | last1 = Miller | first1 = George}}