User:Williamwellington1/Ramazan Kağan Kurtoğlu

Ramazan Kağan Kurtoğlu (b. April 17th 1956 - Antalya ), Turkish academician and economist.

Between March 1, 1983 and May 31, 2009, he worked as an economic consultant, Budget and Finance Chief, Financial Planning and Financial Control Manager, Export Director, Assistant General Manager of Financial Affairs and Finance, General Manager, Executive and Board Member at Koç Holding and Esman Group of Companies.

Education
Ramazan Kağan Kurtoglu, PhD, completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Antalya. In 1981, he received his bachelor's degree from Atatürk University, Faculty of Business Administration. After completing his master's degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations at Istanbul University in 1982, he took courses on international finance and English at the University of California, San Diego and global operations management at the University of California, Irvine. He completed his PhD in political economy at Istanbul University in 2010. He also studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of British Columbia.

He prepared a master's thesis titled Behavioral Sciences in Personnel Management and a doctoral thesis titled Debt Growth and Unemployment after the Transition from Import Substitution to Liberal Economy in Turkey .

He has an article on Subliminal messages titled "Psychological Warfare Operations with Evangelist-Cabalist Disaster Films in US Political Strategy and Turkey" .

Career
Between 1983 and 2009, Mr. Kurtoğlu worked in the private sector and wrote articles on various topics under the name Ramazan K. Kurt for the Ortadoğu (newspaper) between 2005 and 2006. He first appeared on Turkish television in 2007 as a guest on the program "Present Time with Gurkan Hacır" on SKY TÜRK channel. In many programs he has participated in, he has spoken about topics such as global money wars, esoteric organizations, and the new world order.

In 2010, after completing his PhD, Kurtoğlu started academic life and is currently working in the Department of International Trade at Istanbul Aydın University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He also served as the chairman of this department. He has taught undergraduate, graduate and doctoral courses in both Turkish and English.