Aptullah Kuran was a Turkish

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 scholar expert on Ottoman architecture and founding president of Boğaziçi University

Bogaziçi University

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. After graduation from Robert College

Robert College

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 he accepted Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at Architecture in Yale

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. He returned to Robert College in 1968 and became the first president of it when Robert College converted to a state university by Turkish authorities.