Editing Abdullah Gül (section)

===Education===
Gül studied Economics at [[Istanbul University]]. During his graduate education, he spent two years (1976–1978) in London and studied at the [[University of Exeter]] in the United Kingdom. Returning to Turkey in 1978, he became an instructor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Sakarya University while working on his doctoral research on Turkey's economic relations with other Muslim countries.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=MacLean|first=Gerald|title=Abdullah Gul and the Making of the New Turkey|publisher=Oneworld|year=2014|isbn=9781780745626|location=London|pages=92}}</ref> He received his PhD from Istanbul University in 1983. Between 1983 and 1991, he worked at the [[Islamic Development Bank]] (IDB) in [[Jeddah, Saudi Arabia]]. He was conferred an honorary PhD degree from [[Amity University, Noida]] on 8 February 2009, and a [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D]] from the [[University of Dhaka]] on 13 February 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=Doctor of Laws degree conferred on Abdullah Gül |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22187 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=13 February 2010 |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-date=19 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919015256/http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22187 |url-status=live }}</ref>