Personal Information:

             Date of Birth    : 1950

             Place of Birth   : Istanbul (Rep. of Turkey)

             Nationality        : Turkish

Education and Academic Career:

             Secondary  School                    : Kadıköy Maarif College.  (1960 - 1967)

             Higher Education                      : Istanbul Technical University, Mining and Architecture  Faculty,

                                                              Mining Department.  (1968 - 1972)

             Masters                                   : Columbia University, New York, USA.  (Certificate in May 1973)

             Ph D                                       : On "Coal Chemistry" at Istanbul Technical University,

                                                             Mining Faculty.  (Certificate in September 1983)

            Associated Professor Degree      : Department of Mining Engineering of

                                                             Istanbul Technical University.  (Certificate in October 1983)

            Professor Degree                      : Istanbul Technical University, Mining Faculty.

                                                             (Certificate in May 1989)

            Fields of Interest                       : Coal Technology, Briquetting of Coal and Air Pollution. 

  Teaching                                  : Statistics, Coal Technologies, Mining and Environment

Languages                                          : Turkish, English, German, Italian.

Hobbies                                              :Travel, Travel Writer, Photography, Anthropology,

                                                            Foreign Languages,Reading, Cinema, Theatre.

  

 

Academic Activities and Research Programs Abroad:

 

• He has been working as a lecturer at the Mining Faculty of Istanbul Technical University since May 1973.

• He went to  Germany in 1981 with a scholarship from the  German Government for fourteen months to carry out research on Coal Briquetting Technologies at Aachen Technical High School. He also consulted on 15 graduating projects, joined several seminars and conducted two technical trips in Germany.

• In November 1982 he took part in a Coal Technology seminar as the guest of the  Venezuelan Government, acting  both as speaker and consultant.

• He has been to many different countries  for different objectives relating to  research and exploration,  voyages and conferences.

• The book COAL is the most important written work by Mr. Kural on his primary profession. It was prepared over a period of six years with the contributions of 52 authors and 157 scientists, all experts on their fields,  from 61 countries. Mr. Kural has edited the book and also acted as author. The leaders  of 22 countries also expressed their views in the preface of the book. The book is currently being studied at mining faculties in the universities of 20 different countries.

• He became the Head of the  Mining Engineering Department in 2009

Non Professional Activities

 

«    He has been to almost 200 countries travelling 900,000 kilometers,  and currently holds the Turkish  record for the most countries visited.

 

«   He has written  eleven  travel books and is a leading contributor.

 

«   He has been preparing travelling and other  articles for different newspapers and journals.

 

«   He has also prepared a Mathematics Book for high school students.  

 

«   He has participated in a approximately 500 television programmes in Turkey and many others in several           countries he has visited. Many articles have been written about Orhan Kural in different newspaper of 40 countries. He has written lots of articles which have been published in domestic and foreign journals and magazines.

 

«   He has directed television programmes about the protection of environment and ecology at different channels like  (KMP, Channel 9, Istanbul TV,  HBB, Ulusal,  E TV, Channel 6, Expochannel, Star TV and   Kanaltürk) He has also prepared radio programmes  about “travelling” on  different stations. He has also directed a documentary about “Mining”. The programme is filmed in 17 different mines of Turkey.   

 

«   He has opened 36  personal photo exhibitions at which he exhibited the photos he has taken all around the world. The money collected from the sales of his photos has been donated to different charity establishments.

 

« Early in 1998 he established “Gezginler Kulübü” (Travelers Club) in Istanbul which is the first ever travelers club in Turkey. The club has  its  own three – storey building in the historical centre of İstanbul. The club now has  about 300  members among which there are famous authors, photographers, scientists and various other people who come together with a common love of “travel.”

 

« Mr. Kural who has always believed in the close relationship between tourism and the environment, has participated in over 3800  conferences and slide shows in various places ranging from primary schools to police academies to emphasize to the Turkish people the importance of the  environment.  He believes the more a country loses valuable resources the more it loses its tourist  potential. His philosophy is that the travel will enable people to get to know each other and hence remove prejudices and stop wars in the long term and  cultivate peace.

 

 

Awards

 

Over 600  awards have been presented to  Prof. Dr. Orhan Kural by different associations

Most important ones:

·         The Environment Award presented by  Ministry of Environment, Türkiye

·         The Environment Awards of Press presented by INEPO – Türkiye

·         The Environment Award presented by Rectorate of Uludağ University

·         The Contribution Award   presented by World Energy Council

·         The Environment Award presented by Rectorate of Işık University,

·         The Environment Award presented by Rectorate of Maltepe  University

·         The Environmet Award presented by INEPO – Türkiye

·         The most succesfull man of the year of 1998 in the environmental field.

·         The Environmet Award presented by INEPO – Türkiye, 2001

·         The Environmet Award presented by INEPO – Türkiye, 2004

« He was invited by the Ministers and the Airline Companies of  Slovenia, Malta,  S. Arabia and Cuba in 1988,  by Alitalia to visit Florence and Palermo, by Air Portugal to Lisbon in the  year of 1999 and by  KLM to visit Surinam and Guyana in the year of 2000.

«   He is an active member of the Chamber of  the Turkish Mining Engineers, the Turkish National Committee of World Mining Congress, the International Peat Society, Istanbul Technical University Alumni Society and the Society of the Protection of Natural Life.

«   He has been appointed as an Honorary  Consul of Benin in Istanbul.

 

At current, Prof. Dr. Orhan KURAL is

• Head of the  Mining Engineering Department at the Istanbul Technical University

• Honorary Consul of Republic of  Benin,

• Head of Division of Underground Mining Engineering Department at the Istanbul Technical University,

• The President of Turkish Travellers’ Club,

• Vice President of ITU Ecology Club

• Honorary President of the Foundation of the Combatting Smoking

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Contact Information

                 ITU Maden Fakültesi, Maden Mühendisliği Bölümü, Maslak – Istanbul – TURKEY

                Tel: + 90 212 285 66 88, 212 285 63 22, Faks: + 90  212 285 65 31

                E-mail: kural@itu.edu.tr