The kind of quick returns Erdogan has already garnered includes Gulf and Saudi investments, massive imports of Turkish products, huge engineering contracts and the like.
At the time, the Turkish sociologist was an engineering student and as such, he used to underestimate sociology.
Moreover, the Kurds' longstanding fear of dominance by other powers now seems to be colliding with modest yet growing material comfort for some urban Kurds that was unthinkable not long ago, and has come on the back of Turkish investment, consumer goods and engineering expertise.
In this paper, the history of modern mining engineering education at Turkish universities from 1924 until today is briefly explained.
The unconventional design was created by the Turkish firm Alsim Alarko, based in Gebze, with engineering support from other Turkish and foreign companies.
As an example of the approach proposed in this paper, a new reformed program for industrial engineering merges the needs of the Turkish manufacturing industry with the German application-oriented education and research culture.
But Mr. Erdogan isn't the first Turkish leader to have flirted with authoritarianism and social engineering.
In a Turkish grocery store he meets Yunes (Navid Akhavan), an engineering student from Yemen, and the two set up house together and become fast friends.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for years championed the undersea engineering project, first conceived by an Ottoman sultan in 1860.
Emre Hadimogullari, 22, an electrical engineering student in Gaziantep, is so irate at the Turkish government's policy in Syria that he has grown a long beard in protest.
