I Will Bomb Boğaziçi: From Taqi al-Din to the Shackles Placed on the Feet of Boğaziçi

Taqi al-Din is one of the most important astronomers of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1577, by the decree of Murad III, he established an observatory on the ridges of Tophane. 

He made sine/tangent calculations available in table form and produced quite a number of works. As a result of irrational rumors spread by the public—such as that he was interfering with the work of God Almighty and spying on angels—the observatory on the ridges of Tophane was bombed and razed to the ground by Sultan Murad III. A new observatory was only established 300 years later, but it, too, fell victim to the 31 March Incident.

Meanwhile, in Europe, he lived at the same time as Kepler's mentor Tycho Brahe and made roughly the same observations. On the other hand, Kepler, using Brahe's observations, discovered the laws regarding planetary motion known as Kepler's laws during the same period.

This event, which is also accepted as the incident where the World Empire of the Ottomans began its decline, does not hold up today.

They said, "We need to find another model," and by reformatting Boğaziçi University, which was founded in 1863 and is the apple of the eye of the entire geography from the Adriatic to Manchuria, not just our country, they also want to collapse the Turkish State, which has been trying to modernize since the Tanzimat era.

Don't be angry, it's like that.

Boğaziçi, with its 8 faculties, takes the country's best brains and—if Cem Yılmaz won't be offended—turns them into tourism professionals, business administrators, economists, communication experts, lawyers, literary scholars, linguists, sociologists, philosophers, historians, industrial engineers, civil engineers, and electrical engineers.

Since I am a civil engineer, let me say this: To be an engineer, there is no need to rank in the top thousands or tens of thousands.

There are 4-5 departments where students who will enter the top percentile will study, and thank God, sensible local and national professors have opened these departments at Boğaziçi as well.

Although their capacity and scholarship opportunities are insufficient, the departments covering Basic Sciences—Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Mathematics—and Educational Sciences are the most fundamental educational units, departments, and institutions that will develop a country.

Why am I writing this? Exactly as I tried to explain in the title. 

When we take hold of the country's keys, our first act will be to return Boğaziçi to its primary mission.

I will keep only the Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, and Education departments standing.

There is no point in taking the country's smartest students and turning them into accountants, construction workers, economists, or tourism professionals.

There is no logic to it either!!

It is impossible to understand. 

Why are the country's smartest children occupied with ordinary engineering fields like civil, environmental, or industrial engineering, which can be easily done with average or slightly above-average intelligence?

I mean, what is the need to be in the top thousand to be an economist?

We cannot get anywhere by having these minds study in "dummy" departments. 

Am I the only one who thinks this? 

Of course not. 

Everyone with average intelligence and a sound mind thinks so.

Look at the scientists who left their mark on the Industrial Revolutions that began in the mid-1700s. 

They are all either chemists, physicists, biologists, or mathematicians.

The creators of the 4th Industrial Revolution, which began in the 1960s and in which we live, are also mathematicians and physicists.

Perhaps that is why we passed over the last 40 years. The smartest young minds we educated in economics and business at Boğaziçi became accountants in third-rate foreign companies just to earn a thousand euros more abroad.

At this rate, we will not be able to escape the spiral of poverty and underdevelopment we have entered.

 As I will explain in the next article;

 As Aziz Nesin said, "We Won't Develop, No Way"