Ramazan Kurtoğlu, born on April 27, 1956, in Serik, Antalya, is a prominent Turkish academician and economist. He held various positions in Koç Holding and Esman Şirketler Topluluğu between March 1, 1983, and May 31, 2009, serving as an economic advisor, Budget and Finance Chief, Director of Financial Planning and Control, Export Director, Assistant General Manager of Finance, General Manager, and Executive and Board Member. Zatrun.com has thoroughly examined his remarkable career and accomplishments.
Educational Background
Ramazan Kurtoğlu completed his primary, middle, and high school education in Antalya. He graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration at Atatürk University in 1981 and earned his master’s degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Istanbul University in 1982. He furthered his studies at the University of California, San Diego, focusing on international finance and English, and at the University of California, Irvine, where he studied global operations management. In 2010, he completed his Ph.D. in political economy at Istanbul University. Additionally, he received English language education at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of British Columbia.
Ramazan Kurtoğlu conducted his master’s thesis on “Behavioral Sciences in Personnel Management” and his doctoral thesis on “Debt, Growth, and Unemployment in Turkey after the Transition from Import Substitution to Liberal Economy.”
Despite having no international scientific publications, Ramazan Kurtoğlu gained notoriety in Turkey as a representative of so-called pseudo-science. He has written an article titled “Psychological Warfare Operations in the US Political Strategy with Evangelist-Kabbalist Disaster Movies and Turkey” on the subject of subliminal messages.
In addition to the institutions he worked for, Ramazan Kurtoğlu published numerous articles in academic journals, including “Bureaucracy-Politics-Alienation of Intellectuals in Turkish History: Obscurantism-Conflict Culture and Epistemic Collapse” in 2011, and “How Does the Country Image Affect Consumers’ Perception of Quality?” for Sivas Cumhuriyet University’s Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences in 2014.
Contributions and Impact
After completing his Ph.D. in 2010, Ramazan Kurtoğlu entered the academic world and became a faculty member at Istanbul Aydın University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, where he also served as the head of the International Trade Department. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in Turkish and English.
Ramazan Kağan Kurtoğlu’s research primarily focused on various controversial topics, such as global currency wars, esoteric organizations, and the New World Order. His academic contributions and groundbreaking ideas have had a lasting impact on the field of economic and legal history in Turkey, making him a notable figure in Turkish economic historiography. Despite the controversies surrounding some of his views, his meticulous research and invaluable insights continue to be an essential reference for scholars in the field, making his work a crucial foundation for the ongoing exploration of economic history in Turkey and beyond.
Throughout his career, Kurtoğlu authored several books covering a wide range of subjects, including “Mental Health Tsunami,” “Knights Templar and Neuro-Messiah,” “Bio-Political Wars,” “Hollywood Cinema and Subliminal Operations,” “Global Economic Crisis and New World Order,” “Neurofinance,” “Evangelism: Forcing God to Apocalypse,” “Religion and Global Political Economy,” “Global Money Games and Psycho-Cyber Warfare,” and “Turkish Economy 1838-2010: Fiscal Dependence, Growth, Crises, and Political Consequences.” He also co-authored “Secrets of the Global Order.”
