The Department of Philosophy as one of the founding departments was opened in accordance with the 131st Institutions Organization Law, Some Laws, and Some Delegated Legislations accepted in Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 14.07.2010 and published on Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey dated 21.07.2010 and numbered 27648. In 2014, it completed its departmental organization and it started to admit students since 2014-2015 Academic Year. Article of the Law numbered 6005 on Making Changes on Higher Education.