 Mahcupyan's post-graduate studies at Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara university were important for his intellectual trajectory.While he was at graduate school concentrating on international economics, he worked with Prof. Dr. Yahya Sezai Tezel (his thesis advisor) as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at Ankara university during 1977-1980.Simultaneously, he also worked as a writer and an editor at the journal of "Toplumcu Düşün" ("Societist Idea", which published sixteen issues between June 1978 and May 1980) with Tezel.