Sakarya University

Sakarya University (Turkish: Sakarya Üniversitesi, SAU) is a public research university in Serdivan, Sakarya Province, Turkey, on the Istanbul–Ankara corridor in the country's Marmara region.萨卡里亚大学（Sakarya Üniversitesi，简称 SAU）是土耳其萨卡里亚省塞尔迪万的一所公立研究型大学，位于该国马尔马拉地区伊斯坦布尔至安卡拉走廊沿线。

Its origins lie in a 1970 engineering school affiliated with Istanbul Technical University, which became a faculty of that university in 1982 and an independent university under Law No. 3837 on 3 July 1992.该校源于 1970 年附属于伊斯坦布尔理工大学的一所工程学院，1982 年成为该校下属学院，并于 1992 年 7 月 3 日依第 3837 号法律升格为独立大学。

It enrols more than 80,000 students, reports 967 academic staff, appears in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1201–1400 band of the Times Higher Education rankings 2027 and 1,203rd in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026–2027, and its motto is Geleceğinize Yön Verin, or Shape Your Future.该校在校生超过 8 万人，有 967 名学术人员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中位于 1201–1400 区间，在 2026–2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 1203 位，校训为 Geleceğinize Yön Verin，意为「把握你的未来」。

History

• Sakarya University traces its origin to the Sakarya School of Engineering and Architecture, opened in 1970 under the auspices of Istanbul Technical University as the first higher-education institution in Sakarya Province.萨卡里亚大学的前身是 1970 年在伊斯坦布尔理工大学主持下开办的萨卡里亚工程与建筑学校，这是萨卡里亚省第一所高等教育机构。

• In 1971 the school was restructured as the Sakarya State Academy of Engineering and Architecture, a stand-alone academy with its own academic programme and buildings in the Adapazarı area.1971 年，该校改组为萨卡里亚国立工程与建筑学院，成为一所拥有独立教学计划与阿达帕扎勒地区校舍的学院。

• By 1982 it had been reorganised as a faculty within Istanbul Technical University, began offering Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees through the ITU Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, and absorbed vocational schools in Sakarya and Düzce.到 1982 年，它被改编为伊斯坦布尔理工大学下属学院，通过该校纯科学与应用科学研究所开设硕士与博士课程，并合并了萨卡里亚与迪兹杰的职业学校。

• Efforts to create a full university dated from the 1970s, when the Sakarya deputy Hayrettin Uysal introduced a parliamentary bill to establish an institution named Sakarya University, but the proposal failed to pass at the time.升格为完整大学的努力可追溯至 1970 年代，当时萨卡里亚选区议员哈伊雷丁·乌伊萨尔提出建立「萨卡里亚大学」的议会法案，但该提案当时未能通过。

• Law No. 3837, enacted on 3 July 1992, finally established Sakarya University, and the Düzce Vocational School was simultaneously detached and attached to Abant İzzet Baysal University.1992 年 7 月 3 日颁布的第 3837 号法律最终创建了萨卡里亚大学，迪兹杰职业学校同时被剥离并划归阿班特·伊泽特·巴伊萨尔大学。

• Early discussions about the name considered honouring Fevzi Çakmak, the military commander and statesman, as Fevzi Çakmak University, but the proposal was dropped and the institution took the name of the Sakarya region instead.建校初期关于校名的讨论曾考虑以军事统帅与政治家费夫齐·恰克马克命名为「费夫齐·恰克马克大学」，但该方案被放弃，学校最终以萨卡里亚地区命名。

• In November 1992 Ramazan Evren, a professor in Istanbul Technical University's department of industrial engineering, was appointed as the founding rector and began assembling the new university's faculties.1992 年 11 月，伊斯坦布尔理工大学工业工程系教授拉马赞·埃夫伦被任命为首任校长，开始组建这所新大学的院系。

• In May 1993 a bus carrying students and staff of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture to Bodrum collided with a truck on the Karacabey–Bursa highway, killing 17 people and leaving a lasting mark on the university community.1993 年 5 月，一辆载着工程与建筑学院师生前往博德鲁姆的巴士在卡拉贾贝伊至布尔萨公路上与卡车相撞，造成 17 人死亡，给全校师生留下长久创伤。

• During the Marmara earthquake of 1999 the university lost three faculty members, Eyüp Sabri Türker of mathematics, Zuhal Öztürk of the Social Sciences Institute and Sevda Pekak of the Faculty of Theology, along with three administrative staff.1999 年马尔马拉地震期间，该校失去了数学系的埃于普·萨布里·蒂尔克、社会科学研究所的祖哈尔·厄兹蒂尔克与神学院的塞夫达·佩卡克三名教师，以及三名行政人员。

• The Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts were both established in 1997, the first on the Hendek campus and the second with departments of painting, ceramics and traditional Turkish handicrafts.教育学院与美术学院均于 1997 年成立，前者设在亨德克校区，后者开设绘画、陶瓷与传统土耳其手工艺三个系。

• The Middle East programme began in 2005 with the first issue of the Middle East Annual, produced by a group of academics that included Kemal Inat, who later became the institute's founding director.中东研究项目始于 2005 年首期《中东年鉴》的出版，参与编纂的学者包括后来出任研究所创始所长的凯马尔·伊纳特。

• A master's programme on the Middle East opened under the Social Sciences Institute in May 2012, an online version followed in the same year, and the first Middle East Congress on Politics and Society ran from 9 to 11 October 2012.2012 年 5 月，社会科学研究所下设的中东硕士项目开班，同年又推出在线版本，第一届中东政治与社会大会于 2012 年 10 月 9 日至 11 日举行。

• The Center for Middle Eastern Studies was established on 11 December 2013, focusing on the effects of the Arab Spring on the politics, society and economy of the region and hosting a second congress in 2014.中东研究中心于 2013 年 12 月 11 日成立，重点研究阿拉伯之春对中东政治、社会与经济的影响，并于 2014 年举办第二届大会。

• The centre was upgraded to the Sakarya University Middle East Institute on 25 May 2015, taking over all graduate programmes and staff while retaining the abbreviation ORMER from Ortadoğu Merkezi.该中心于 2015 年 5 月 25 日升格为萨卡里亚大学中东研究所，接管全部研究生项目与人员，同时保留源自 Ortadoğu Merkezi 的缩写 ORMER。

• The Faculty of Technology admitted its first students in the 2010–2011 academic year with five engineering departments and a 7+1 model that adds a semester of industry placement to seven semesters of coursework.技术学院于 2010–2011 学年招收首批学生，设五个工程系，并实行「7+1」模式，即七个学期课堂学习之后增加一个学期的企业实习。

• The Faculty of Communication was established in 2012 with departments of public relations and advertising, journalism, radio-television and cinema and communication sciences, and the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences became the Faculty of Political Sciences in May 2014.传播学院于 2012 年成立，设公共关系与广告、新闻学、广播电视与电影、传播科学四个系，经济与行政科学学院则于 2014 年 5 月更名为政治学院。

• A decree published in the Official Gazette on 18 May 2018 transferred several academic units to the newly created Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, reshaping the university's vocational and applied programmes.2018 年 5 月 18 日刊登于《官方公报》的一项法令把若干学术单位划归新成立的萨卡里亚应用科学大学，重塑了该校的职业与应用型课程体系。

• In 2023 the Council of Higher Education selected Sakarya University for its Research Universities Candidate Monitoring Programme, a status reserved for institutions being assessed for research-university designation.2023 年，土耳其高等教育委员会将萨卡里亚大学纳入「研究型大学候选监测计划」，该身份专用于接受研究型大学认定评估的院校。

Academics

• The university is organised into 13 faculties: Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Law, Communication, Health Sciences, Art Design and Architecture, Business, Political Sciences, Theology, Education and Medicine.该校设有 13 个学院：工程学院、计算机与信息科学学院、人文与社会科学学院、理学院、法学院、传播学院、健康科学学院、艺术设计与建筑学院、商学院、政治学院、神学院、教育学院与医学院。

• Six institutes coordinate graduate work in educational sciences, natural sciences, business, health sciences, social sciences and Middle Eastern studies, and two vocational schools, a state conservatory and a school of foreign languages complete the academic structure.六个研究所分别负责教育科学、自然科学、商学、健康科学、社会科学与中东研究的研究生教育，另有两所职业学校、一所国立音乐学院与一所外国语学院构成完整的学术架构。

• The university offers 162 bachelor's programmes, 26 associate-degree programmes, 155 graduate programmes and 87 doctoral programmes, taught in Turkish and English.学校开设 162 个本科专业、26 个副学士专业、155 个研究生项目与 87 个博士项目，授课语言为土耳其语和英语。

• Its official fast-facts page reported 80,974 students, while the 2020 breakdown listed 37,807 bachelor's students, 6,177 associate-degree students, 8,076 graduate students and 1,642 doctoral candidates.学校官方数据页列出 80974 名学生，而 2020 年的分类统计为本科生 37807 人、副学士生 6177 人、研究生 8076 人、博士生 1642 人。

• It employed 967 academic staff and 1,641 administrative staff in 2019–2020, a ratio that supports a broad curriculum across engineering, health, law, theology and the social sciences.2019–2020 学年，学校有 967 名学术人员与 1641 名行政人员，这一师资规模支撑起覆盖工程、健康、法律、神学与社会科学的多学科课程体系。

• By 2020 the university counted approximately 160,000 graduates, a figure that reflects its role as one of the largest higher-education providers in the Marmara region outside Istanbul.截至 2020 年，学校累计毕业生约 16 万人，这体现了它作为伊斯坦布尔以外马尔马拉地区规模最大的高等教育机构之一的地位。

• The Faculty of Engineering, the founding faculty, has eight departments: mechanical, civil, electrical and electronics, industrial, metallurgical and materials, environmental, geophysical and food engineering.作为创校学院的工程学院设有八个系：机械工程、土木工程、电气与电子工程、工业工程、冶金与材料工程、环境工程、地球物理工程与食品工程。

• The Faculty of Political Sciences, reorganised in 2014 from the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, teaches political science and public administration, international relations, economics, labour economics and industrial relations, public finance and financial econometrics.政治学院于 2014 年由经济与行政科学学院改组而来，教授政治学与公共行政、国际关系、经济学、劳动经济学与产业关系、公共财政以及金融计量经济学。

• The Faculty of Theology, established in 1992 outside the main campus, employs more than 80 academic staff and teaches around 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students.神学院于 1992 年在主校区之外成立，拥有 80 多名学术人员，为约 3500 名本科与研究生授课。

• The Faculty of Education, founded in 1997, operates on the Hendek campus as the largest faculty located outside the main Esentepe site.教育学院成立于 1997 年，设在亨德克校区，是主校区埃森特佩之外规模最大的学院。

• Sixteen research centres operate under the university, including the Artificial Intelligence Systems Application and Research Centre, the Fire Research Centre, the Balkan Studies Centre, the Diaspora Studies Centre and the Turkish World Research Centre (TÜRKMER).学校设有 16 个研究中心，包括人工智能系统应用与研究中心、火灾研究中心、巴尔干研究中心、侨民研究中心与土耳其世界研究中心（TÜRKMER）。

• The library system comprises nearly ten libraries and more than 710,000 items, among them over 700,000 books, 7,620 theses, 3,717 CDs and DVDs and 1,766 printed journals, all classified under the Dewey system.图书馆系统由近十座图书馆组成，藏有 71 万余件资料，包括 70 多万册图书、7620 篇学位论文、3717 件光盘与 1766 种印刷期刊，全部按杜威分类法编目。

• The Middle East Institute employs ten full-time faculty members and 18 research assistants, publishes the Middle East Annual since 2005 and the Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies since 2014, and organises a biennial congress.中东研究所拥有 10 名全职教师与 18 名研究助理，自 2005 年起出版《中东年鉴》、自 2014 年起出版《土耳其中东研究杂志》，并每两年举办一次大会。

• Research awards have gone to Ali Balcı and Ozan Yılmaz in 2019, Gamze Güney Eskiler in 2022 and Tuğrul Çetinkaya in 2024 under the Turkish Academy of Sciences young-scientist programme, while Mahmut Özaçar won a TÜBİTAK incentive award in 2010 and Yalçın Solak a BAGEP award in 2016.阿里·巴尔奇与奥赞·耶尔马兹于 2019 年、加姆泽·居内伊·埃斯基莱尔于 2022 年、图鲁尔·切廷卡亚于 2024 年获得土耳其科学院青年科学家奖，马赫穆特·厄扎查尔于 2010 年获土耳其科学技术研究理事会激励奖，亚尔琴·索拉克于 2016 年获 BAGEP 奖。

• It is a member of the European University Association and the International Association of Universities, and its quality-assurance work is certified under the ECTS and DS labels as well as TS EN ISO 9001 and the EFQM framework.学校是欧洲大学协会与国际大学协会成员，其质量保障工作获得 ECTS 与 DS 标签以及 TS EN ISO 9001 和 EFQM 框架认证。

• The university runs the Middle East Institute as a graduate-focused unit, with master's and doctoral programmes, a specialised library and a peer-reviewed journal that together make the region one of its distinctive research strengths.学校把中东研究所办成以研究生为主的教学科研单位，设有硕士与博士项目、专业图书馆与同行评审期刊，使中东研究成为其特色优势领域之一。

Campus

• The main Esentepe campus lies in Serdivan at 40.7408 degrees north and 30.3333 degrees east, and houses most faculties, the rectorate, the central library and the state conservatory.主校区埃森特佩位于塞尔迪万，坐标为北纬 40.7408 度、东经 30.3333 度，容纳大多数学院、校部、中央图书馆与国立音乐学院。

• The Hendek campus hosts the Faculty of Education, while the Korucuk campus accommodates the Faculty of Medicine and its clinical teaching facilities on the eastern side of the province.亨德克校区设教育学院，科鲁朱克校区则容纳医学院及其临床教学设施，位于该省东部。

• Two vocational schools, the Adapazarı Vocational School and the Health Services Vocational School, operate alongside the main campuses and serve students in shorter applied programmes.阿达帕扎勒职业学校与健康服务职业学校两所职业学校在主校区之外办学，为攻读较短应用型课程的学生服务。

• The Süleyman Demirel Library, the largest unit in the library system, moved into its own building in 1995 on a 5,000-square-metre site with 7,000 square metres of floor space, and received a study-space annex in 2014.苏莱曼·德米雷尔图书馆是图书馆系统中最大的单位，1995 年迁入占地 5000 平方米、建筑面积 7000 平方米的独立大楼，并于 2014 年增建学习空间附楼。

• The campus sports infrastructure includes two indoor sports halls, an outdoor sports facility and football pitches that are available to students throughout the academic year.校园体育设施包括两座室内体育馆、一处室外运动场和多块足球场，学年期间向学生开放。

• The Middle East Institute occupies its own building on campus, which contains the Jerusalem Hall, a specialised library named after Ibn-i Haldun and seminar rooms used for lectures and congresses.中东研究所占据校园内一座独立建筑，内有「耶路撒冷厅」、以伊本·赫勒敦命名的专业图书馆以及用于讲座与大会的研讨室。

• Sakarya Province sits on the historic road between Istanbul and Ankara, and the university's Serdivan location places it near the Adapazarı city centre and the Sakarya river that gives the province its name.萨卡里亚省位于伊斯坦布尔与安卡拉之间的历史通道上，学校所在的塞尔迪万靠近阿达帕扎勒市中心以及赋予该省名称的萨卡里亚河。

• The Esentepe site combines teaching buildings, laboratories, the library, sports halls and student amenities in a single complex, allowing most students to move between classes and facilities on foot.埃森特佩校区把教学楼、实验室、图书馆、体育馆与学生生活设施集中在一个建筑群内，大多数学生可以步行往返于课堂与设施之间。

Reputation

• Sakarya University is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the open-ended final band shared by 102 institutions rather than a single numerical rank.萨卡里亚大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，这是由 102 所高校共享的开放式末段区间，而非某个具体名次。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed it at 1001–1200 in 2023, 1201–1500 in 2024 and 1500+ in 2025 before the 2027 edition returned it to the 1201–1400 band.泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名在 2023 年将其列入 1001–1200 区间，2024 年为 1201–1500，2025 年为 1500+，2027 年版则回升至 1201–1400 区间。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026–2027 it is ranked 1,203rd, the strongest numerical position among the global rankings in which it appears in this cycle.在 2026–2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中，该校位列第 1203 位，是它本轮所入全球榜单中的最好数字名次。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities does not include Sakarya University in its main table, so its international profile rests on the QS, THE and U.S. News listings and on Turkish national assessments.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录萨卡里亚大学，因此其国际声誉主要依托 QS、THE 与 U.S. News 榜单以及土耳其国内评估。

• The University Ranking by Academic Performance placed it 28th among all Turkish universities in its 2025 table, confirming its position in the upper quarter of the country's large university system.大学学术表现排名（URAP）在 2025 年榜单中把该校列为土耳其所有大学第 28 位，确认其在该国庞大高教体系中处于前四分之一。

• In the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021 it stood in the 401–600 band overall among 1,115 universities and ranked first in Turkey for Clean Water and Sanitation, where it reached the 101–200 band worldwide.在 2021 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，该校在 1115 所大学中位于 401–600 区间，并在「清洁饮水与卫生」单项上位居土耳其第一、全球 101–200 区间。

• In Web of Science's 2020 publication ranking for political science and international relations, its Middle East Institute and International Relations department placed second among Turkish state universities, helping the university to third nationwide in that field and sixth in the social-science citation index.在 Web of Science 2020 年政治学与国际关系发文排名中，该校中东研究所与国际关系系在土耳其国立大学中位列第二，使学校在该领域位居全国第三、社会科学引文索引第六。

• The QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia ranking placed Sakarya University in the 221–230 band in 2022, a regional listing that complements its global positions.QS 新兴欧洲与中亚地区排名在 2022 年把萨卡里亚大学列入 221–230 区间，这一地区榜单与其全球位次互为补充。

• The university describes itself as the first and only Turkish public university to hold the ISO 2002 quality certificate and the EFQM Excellence Quality Certificate of Competency Level, and it reached the finals of the EFQM Excellence Award in 2015.学校自称是土耳其第一所也是唯一一所同时获得 ISO 2002 质量证书与 EFQM 卓越质量能力等级证书的公立大学，并于 2015 年进入 EFQM 卓越奖决赛。

• Its selection for the Council of Higher Education's Research Universities Candidate Monitoring Programme in 2023 marked the university's most recent step in the national research hierarchy.2023 年入选土耳其高等教育委员会「研究型大学候选监测计划」，是该校在国家科研层级中迈出的最新一步。

Student life

• The university motto is Geleceğinize Yön Verin, meaning Shape Your Future, and its colours are cardinal blue and white, which appear on academic dress, sports kit and campus signage.校训为 Geleceğinize Yön Verin，意为「把握你的未来」，校色为蓝色与白色，出现在学位服、运动队服与校园标识上。

• SATEK, the Sakarya University solar boat, was designed and built by a five-student team in 2006 with support from TÜBİTAK, measures 5.36 metres by 1.96 metres and carries 800 watt-hours of solar cells.萨卡里亚大学太阳能船 SATEK 由五名学生组成的团队于 2006 年在土耳其科学技术研究理事会支持下设计建造，长 5.36 米、宽 1.96 米，装有 800 瓦时太阳能电池。

• The Sakarya Tatankaları, the university's American football team, competes in the Turkish league and gives the campus one of its most visible sporting identities.该校美式橄榄球队「萨卡里亚野牛」（Sakarya Tatankaları）参加土耳其联赛，是校园最具辨识度的体育名片之一。

• Students use two indoor sports halls, an outdoor facility and football pitches for training and inter-faculty competition throughout the academic year.学年期间，学生可使用两座室内体育馆、一处室外运动场和多块足球场进行训练与院际比赛。

• The State Conservatory stages concerts, recitals and theatre productions that are open to students and the public, adding a cultural programme to the mainly technical profile of the university.国立音乐学院举办音乐会、独奏会与戏剧演出并向学生和公众开放，为这所以工科见长的大学增添了文化节目。

• The Middle East Institute's biennial Congress on Politics and Society, first held in 2012, brings graduate students together with Turkish and foreign scholars for public lectures and workshops.中东研究所每两年举办一次的「政治与社会大会」始于 2012 年，让研究生与土耳其及外国学者共同参加公开讲座与工作坊。

• The Süleyman Demirel Library and its 2014 annex provide individual study rooms, reading halls and group work areas that anchor daily student life on the Esentepe campus.苏莱曼·德米雷尔图书馆及其 2014 年附楼提供独立自习室、阅览大厅与小组讨论区，是埃森特佩校区日常学生生活的核心场所。

Notable people

• Ramazan Evren, a professor of industrial engineering at Istanbul Technical University, was appointed the founding rector in November 1992 and led the creation of the university's first faculties.拉马赞·埃夫伦是伊斯坦布尔理工大学工业工程教授，1992 年 11 月被任命为创校校长，主持了首批学院的组建。

• Hayrettin Uysal, the Sakarya deputy who introduced the 1970s parliamentary bill for a university in the province, kept the project on the political agenda until Law No. 3837 realised it in 1992.哈伊雷丁·乌伊萨尔是 1970 年代在议会提出于该省设立大学法案的萨卡里亚议员，他使这一计划持续留在政治议程上，直至 1992 年第 3837 号法律将其实现。

• Abdullah Gül, the 11th President of Turkey from 2007 to 2014, taught at Sakarya University before his presidency and had taken his economics degree at Istanbul University.阿卜杜拉·居尔于 2007 年至 2014 年任土耳其第 11 任总统，在出任总统前曾在萨卡里亚大学任教，早年毕业于伊斯坦布尔大学经济学专业。

• Malik Beyleroğlu, a former member of the academic staff, won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, one of Turkey's most notable results of those Games.马尔克·贝莱罗卢曾是该校学术人员，在 1996 年亚特兰大夏季奥运会上获得银牌，是土耳其在那届奥运会上的重要战绩之一。

• Engin Yıldırım, a former faculty member, became a member of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, the country's highest court for constitutional review.恩金·耶尔德勒姆曾是该校教师，后来出任土耳其宪法法院法官，该法院是土耳其负责合宪性审查的最高法院。

• Norman Finkelstein, the American political scientist and author of The Holocaust Industry, who took his doctorate at Princeton University, taught at Sakarya University as a visiting member of faculty.美国政治学家、《大屠杀产业》作者诺曼·芬克尔斯坦在普林斯顿大学取得博士学位，曾作为访问教师到萨卡里亚大学授课。

• Sami Güçlü, a former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Turkey, was a member of the university's faculty before entering government.萨米·居奇吕曾任土耳其农业与农村事务部长，在进入政府之前是萨卡里亚大学教师。

• Burhanettin Duran, a deputy foreign minister of Turkey, taught at the university and is among the political scientists associated with its Middle East research cluster.布尔哈内丁·杜兰现任土耳其外交部副部长，曾在萨卡里亚大学任教，是与该校中东研究集群相关的政治学者之一。

• Mehmet Bozdağ, a screenwriter, producer and director who founded Bozdağ Film and created the television series Diriliş: Ertuğrul, studied at Sakarya University.编剧、制片人兼导演穆罕默德·博兹达创办了 Bozdağ Film 并创作电视剧《复兴：埃尔图鲁尔》，他曾在萨卡里亚大学就读。

• Riza Akpolat, a member of the Republican People's Party, graduated from Sakarya University and served as mayor of Istanbul's Beşiktaş district from 2019 to 2025.里扎·阿克波拉特是共和人民党成员，毕业于萨卡里亚大学，2019 年至 2025 年任伊斯坦布尔贝西克塔什区区长。

• Enes Erkan, a karateka in the over-84-kilogram kumite division, won world and European championships and studied physical education and sports at Sakarya University.恩内斯·埃尔坎是 84 公斤以上级组手空手道选手，曾获世界冠军与欧洲冠军，并在萨卡里亚大学学习体育教育。

• Hamza Al, a professor of international relations, has served as rector since 2023 and has emphasised research-university status and international cooperation during his term.国际关系教授哈姆扎·阿尔自 2023 年起任校长，任内强调研究型大学建设与国际合作。