[1] In 1947, he obtained his Ph.D. from Ankara University with a thesis entitled "Judicial Supervision of the Conformity of Laws to the Constitution in Turkey and Other Countries."
[1] During his tenure as an associate professor in the years 1953-1954, he was sent by the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University to France and England for research.
In 1955, at the age of 33, he was promoted to the rank of professor and was elected as the dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University.
Although in 1960–1961 term he briefly returned to academics and served as the rector of Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, his main area of interest was politics.
In 1960 (during his service in METU) he also served in the constituent assembly and was appointed as the minister of education[3] in Cabinet Gürsel I.
Turhan Feyzioğlu actively opposed the policy termed "left of center" (Turkish: ortanın solu), advocated by Bülent Ecevit.
Their daughter Saide (1950-1969) married Mehmet Buçukoğlu, but she died two hours after bearing a son, Metin, on 7 July 1969.