Doctoral Alumni

List of UAlbany Turkish Doctoral Alumni*

2010 Asil Özdoğru, Educational Psychology
2010 Sedef Uzuner, Educational Theory and Practice
2010 Burak Dindaroğlu, Economics
2010 Çağrı Özköse-Bıyık, Educational Theory and Practice
2009 Ahmet Güler, Public Administration
2009 Ersan Özkan, Political Science
2009 Bahadır Kazım Akçam, Informatics
2008 Ayhan Bingölbalı, Physics
2008 Sezgin Seymen Çebi, Political Science
2007 Rahmi Bula, Physics
2006 Şehnaz Baltacı-Göktalay, Educational Theory and Practice
2006 Mehmet Akif Ocak, Educational Theory and Practice
2005 Gültekin Işıklar, Economics
2004 Osman Nuri Kureş, Mathematics
2004 Emrah Arbak, Economics
2003 Özlem Çeziktürk, Educational Theory and Practice
2003 Vedat G. Diker, Information Studies
1994 Selçuk Caner, Economics
1988 Candan Karlıtekin, Economics
1982 Ali Mehmet Celal Şengör, Geological Sciences
1978 Mehmet A. Odekon, Economics

* The list is not official and all inclusive. For corrections and additions please contact us.

Did You Know?

Interesting Facts about Turkey

1. The only city in the world located on two continents is İstanbul which had been the capital of three great empires; Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman for more than 2000 years
2. Legend has it that St. John brought Virgin Mary to Ephesus where she spent her last days in a small house on Mt. Koressos (Bülbül dağı) near Ephesus
3. Early Christians escaping from Roman persecution nearly 2000 years ago sheltered in Cappodocia in Central Anatolia
4. Part of Turkey’s southwestern shore was a wedding gift that Mark Antony gave to Cleopatra
5. The famous Trojan wars took place in western Turkey
6. Turkey introduced coffee to Europe
7. St. Nicholas, also known as Santa Claus, was born and lived in Demre, Turkey
8. Turkey is the birthplace of the many historical figures and legends such as the Poet Homer, King Midas, Historian Herodotus and St. Paul
9. Long before the discovery of America, English merchants discovered the Çulluk, a kind of bird in the Turkish countryside, and began exporting it back to England, where it became very popular, and was known as a 'Turkey bird' or simply a 'turkey.'
10. "Turkiya" means "season's beginnings" or "beautiful" in Swahili
11. How was the name of country Turks & Caicos Islands derived? The popular story is the name Turks being derived after the indigenous Turk's Head "fez" cactus, and the name Caicos, a Lucayan term "caya hico," meaning string of islands. A more romantic, origin of the name is a reflection of the Islands' pirate history, when 17th and 18th century pirates used the islands as hideouts and preyed upon the passing Spanish treasure ships bound for Europe. The term "Turk" for a pirate stemmed two centuries earlier when the Ottoman Empire dominated the Mediterranean and Turkish corsaries harried European Atlantic shipping, thus translated "Turks" Islands becomes "Pirate" Islands!