Aydin

A man returned to school after 40 years to graduate from engineering school at the age of 63.

Üzeyir Aydın had to drop out of the civil engineering department at a university in the province of Balıkesir that he enrolled in 1978 due to financial problems.

"It was 1983 when I had to stop studying because my family was going through hard times," Aydın recalled.

An increasingly authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the New York Times of meddling in the affairs of his country through a critical article. In fact, he told the influential US paper to “know your place”.

He stated that the editorial “literally gave orders to the United States”.