[1] He received his primary and secondary education in Malatya and went on to graduate from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History, and Geography with a degree in Philosophy and Sociology in 1955.
[1] He then became an assistant at Atatürk University, Faculty of Business Administration, where he received his doctorate in 1962 with a study titled "Social Organisation of Malakans".
[1] In 1972 Türkdoğan was invited to Germany with a DAAD scholarship provided by the German government, where he conducted a socio-economic research on first-generation Turkish workers.
[1] In the same year, he traveled to the University of St Andrews in Scotland to conduct research on terrorism and violence.
[2] Orhan Türkdoğan, in his book "Ethnic Sociology" and during a speech in Houston in 1997, made a highly controversial statement that "There is no such thing as the Kurdish people or nation" and that they are merely carriers of Turkish culture and habits.