Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
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Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (born 1943) is the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. He is Turkish.
İhsanoğlu was born in Cairo, Egypt where he later studied science at the Ain Shams University, receiving his BSc in 1966. He obtained his MSc in 1970 from the same university and his PhD from the Faculty of Science at the Ankara University in 1974.
He was founder and chairman of the Department of History of Science at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University from 1984 to 2000. His special interest focuses on culture and scholarship in the Islamic world. He was lecturer and visiting professor at various universities like University of Exeter, United Kingdom (1975-1977), Ankara University, Faculty of Science (1970-1980), Inönü University, Malatya (1978-1980), Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany (2003).
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[edit] Visit to Egypt
İhsanoğlu visited Egypt on February 7, 2007, meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, Arab League General Amr Moussa, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. State-run news network MENA interviewed İhsanoğlu, asking him about the Occupation of Iraq. He said, "What is going on in Iraq is first and foremost a political strife, of which all disputing parties will come out losing."[1]
[edit] Honorary doctorates
- 1994 Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 1996 Dowling College, Long Island, New York, USA
- 2000 Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan
- 2001 University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2001 University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2004 Tatarstan Academy of Science
[edit] References
- ^ OIC chief calls for halt of violence in Iraq People's Daily Online
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