Orhan Türkdoğan

After graduating, Türkdoğan worked as a philosophy teacher at Malatya High School between 1955
and 1959.[1] He then became an assistant at Atatürk University, Faculty of Business Administration,
where he received his doctorate in 1962 with a study titled "Social Organisation of Malakans".[1]

Between 1962 and 1964 Türkdoğan pursued further studies in anthropology, sociology, psychology,
village sociology, and community development at the universities of Nebraska and Missouri in the
United States.[1] In 1967 he became an associate professor with a socio-anthropological study of the
health and disease system in thirty-eight villages of Erzurum,[1] and in 1971, he became a professor
in Turkey with his work "Basic Problems of Village Sociology".[1]

In 1972 Türkdoğan was invited to Germany with a DAAD scholarship provided by the German
government, where he conducted a socio-economic research on first-generation Turkish
workers.[1] In 1980, he was invited to Germany again with the same scholarship to conduct research
on the second generation and carried out a large-scale study of the second generation in certain
labor culture areas.[1] In the same year, he traveled to the University of St Andrews in Scotland to
conduct research on terrorism and violence.[1]

Throughout his career Türkdoğan served as the head of the department and dean of the faculty at
various universities. He also transferred to Gazi University Bolu Administrative Sciences High
School, where he took part in the establishment of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University between 1985
and 1995. In 1995, he moved to Gebze Technical University.