Built in 1961, İstanbul University Medico-Social Center not only provided the university students with basic health and cultural services but also had served as a place for the cultural and artistic activities of the revolutionary student movement for long years.

From 1974 until the 1980 Coup, the revolutionary students had organized, either in official units within the university or in the associations they formed and performed activities in areas like theater, music, (Anatolian) folk dancing, and sports. Between those years the students arranged festivals, night events, concerts, and plays, “Istanbul University Culture Festival” in March 1980 being their last activity in the center.