In 1972 he was granted an assistant professorship at Ankara University for his thesis on "Progress of the Socialist Planned Economy".
In 1975, he worked as a specialist in the Health and Welfare Department of the United Nations Organisation, in Geneva, Switzerland.
But after three years, he was dismissed from his position after the "1402" law put into effect by the Military coup of 1980 in Turkey.
[1] He was honored in 2005 by a conference about his work, organized by Ankara University and History Foundation of Turkey.
Boratav is a member of the Advisory Board of Praksis, a Turkish journal of social sciences.