İlber Ortaylı is a leading Turkish

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 historian

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, professor

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 of history

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 at the Galatasaray University

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 in Istanbul

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 and at Bilkent University

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 in Ankara

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. Since 2005 he has been the head of the Topkapı Museum in Istanbul.

Biography

As the son of a Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatars

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 family who fled Stalin's persecution and deportation, he was born in a refugee camp

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 in Bregenz

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, Austria

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 on 21 May, 1947 and came to Turkey

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 when he was 2 years old. Ortaylı attended elementary school and St. George's Austrian High School in İstanbul and then Ankara Atatürk High School. He graduated from Ankara University

Ankara University

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 Mekteb-i Mülkiye

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 (Faculty of Political Science) and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago

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 under Professor Halil İnalcık

Halil Inalcik

-Biography:He was born in Istanbul to a Crimean Tatar family, which left Crimea for Constantinople in 1905. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose 26 May 1916 for his birthday. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography,...

 and at the University of Vienna

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. He obtained his doctorate

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 at Ankara University in the Faculty of Political Sciences. His doctoral thesis was Local Administration in the Tanzimat Period (1978). After his doctorate, he attended to the faculty at the School of Political Science

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s of Ankara University

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. In 1979, he was appointed as associate professor. In 1982, he resigned from his position, protesting the academic policy of the government established after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. After teaching at several universities in Turkey, Europe and Russia

Russia

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, in 1989 he returned to the Ankara University and became professor

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 of history

History

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 and the head of the section of administrative history.

İlber Ortaylı is widely known as a polyglot

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. He speaks apart from his mother language Turkish

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, Russian

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, German

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, English

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, French

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, Italian

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, Ottoman Turkish

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, Arabic

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 and Persian

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Works

He has published articles on Ottoman and Russian history, particular emphasis on cities and the history of public administration, diplomatic, cultural and intellectual history. In 2001, he collected the Aydın Doğan Foundation Award. He is a member of the Foundation for International Studies, the European-Iran Examining Foundation and the Austrian-Turkish Academy of Sciences. A biographical book on İlber Ortaylı, "Zaman Kaybolmaz: İlber Ortaylı Kitabı," was published by Nilgün Uysal in 2006. Also, he co-story writer of Assassin's Creed: Revelations

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Books

• Tanzimat'tan Sonra Mahalli İdareler (1974)
• Türkiye'de Belediyeciliğin Evrimi (İlhan Tekeli ile birlikte, 1978)
• Türkiye İdare Tarihi (1979)
• Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Alman Nüfuzu (1980)
• İkinci Abdülhamit döneminde Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Alman nüfuzu (1981)
• Gelenekten Geleceğe (1982)
• İmparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı (1983)
• Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e Yerel Yönetim Geleneği (1985)
• İstanbul'dan Sayfalar (1986)
• Studies on Ottoman Transformation (1994)
• Hukuk ve İdare Adamı Olarak Osmanlı Devletinde Kadı (1994)
• Türkiye İdare Tarihine Giriş (1996)
• Osmanlı Aile Yapısı (2000)
• Tarihin Sınırlarına Yolculuk (2001)
• Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İktisadi ve Sosyal Değişim (2001)
• Osmanlı Mirasından Cumhuriyet Türkiye'sine (Taha Akyol ile birlikte, 2002)
• Osmanlı Barışı (2004)
• Barış Köprüleri Dünyaya Açılan Türk Okulları (2005)
• Osmanlı’yı Yeniden Keşfetmek (2006)
• Kırk Ambar Sohbetleri (2006)
• Osmanlı’yı Yeniden Keşfetmek-2 (2006)
• Eski Dünya Seyahatnamesi (2007)

External links

• Biography, Istanbul Bilgi University
  Istanbul Bilgi University
  Istanbul Bilgi University is a private, non-profit university in Istanbul, Turkey. It was actually established in 1994 under the name ISIS , but its name was changed to Istanbul Bilgi University with the foundation of the school on June 7, 1996...