Reşit Emre Kongar (born 13 October 1941) is a Turkish

social scientist Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of socie ...

, academic, author, and columnist. As of July 2021, he regularly writes his column at

Cumhuriyet ''Cumhuriyet'' (; English: " Republic") is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper. It has been described as "the most important independent public interest newspaper in contemporary Turkey". The newspaper was awarded the ''Freedom of Pr ...

Early life and education

Emre Kongar was born in 1941 in Istanbul, to İhsan Kongar, a philosophy teacher at Şişli Terakki High School and Pertevniyal High School and Mesude Kongar, also a philosophy teacher at Şişli Terakki High School and Zapyon High School. Engin, his older brother, died with Yalçın M., a mountain climbing fellow, following a fatal accident that happened in Demirkazık Peak, located in

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on 8 September 1956. He received his bachelor degree of

public finance Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achiev ...

Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University The Faculty of Political Science of the University of Ankara ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, more simply known as "''SBF''") is the oldest faculty of social science in Turkey, being the successor of the "Mekteb-i Mülkiye" ( ...

of Ankara University in 1963 and later studied

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at Michigan State University until 1966.

Career

In 1968, Kongar founded Social Studies Academy at

Hacettepe University Hacettepe University is a leading state university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by URAP in 2021. The university has two main campuses. The first campus is in the old t ...

, Ankara. In 1983, Kongar was one of the earliest academics to protest Council of Higher Education of Turkey, the post-

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formed high level education supervision board, based on his claim that

İhsan Doğramacı Professor İhsan Doğramacı (3 April 1915 – 25 February 2010) was a Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent born in today's Erbil, Iraq then Ottoman Empire ...

to found and lead this board, who was also the founder of

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

, a

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, would disrupt public property function of the state owned universities. Between 1996 and 2000, until his retirement of academic profession, he lectured at Hacettepe, Yıldız Teknik and Istanbul Universities. Kongar supported the March for Justice led by Republican People's Party and walked along

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (born Kemal Karabulut, 17 December 1948) is a Turkish economist, retired civil servant and social democratic politician. He is leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and has been Leader of the Main Opposition in ...

on 21 June 2017. His book "İstanbul: 1940’lardan Bugüne Efsaneler Anılar İzlenimler" was published by Remzi Kitapevi in 2019.

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Official Website
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