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List Of Turkish Academics
{{Short description, none Below is a list of notable Turkish academics. A * Daron Acemoğlu * Tülay Adalı * Halide Edib Adıvar * Erhan Afyoncu * Mehmet Aga-Oglu * Zeynep Ahunbay * Şükrü Halûk Akalın * Ali Akansu * Selman Akbulut * Taner Akçam * Ali Akdemir * Yalçın Akdoğan * Mustafa Akgül * Derya Akkaynak * Fevzi Aksoy * Muammer Aksoy * İrşadi Aksun * Ekrem Akurgal * Mete Akyol * Türkan Akyol * Fikri Alican * Ahmet Alkan * Ahmet Vefik Alp * Sedat Alp * Mehmet Altan * İhsan Oktay Anar * Oya Araslı * Cahit Arf * Erdal Arıkan * Engin Arık * Attila Aşkar * Tomur Atagök * Abdullah Atalar * Toktamış Ateş * Mehmet Aydın * Mustafa Aydın * Lale Aytaman * Orhan Aytür B * Özalp Babaoğlu * Ali Bardakoğlu * Aykut Barka * Asım Orhan Barut * Tamer Başar * Süheyl Batum * Deniz Baykal * Turhan Baytop * Murat Belge * Nihat Berker * Halil Berktay * Behice Boran * Korkut Boratav * Naci Bostancı * Metin Boşnak * Aydın Boysan * Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daron Acemoğlu
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1993. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He was named Institute Professor in 2019. Born to Armenian parents in Istanbul, Acemoglu completed his MSc and then PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) at 25. He lectured at LSE for a year before joining the MIT. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. Acemoglu is best known for his work on political economy. He has authored hundreds of papers, many of which are co-authored with his long-time collaborators Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. With Robinson, he authored ''Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy'' (2006) and ''Why Nations Fail'' (2012). The latter, an influential book on the role that institutions play in shaping nations' economic outcomes, prompted wide scholarly and media commentary. Described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekrem Akurgal
Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça), Pitane (Çandarlı), Erythrai ( Ildırı) and old Smyrna ( Bayraklı höyük, the original site of the city of Smyrna before the city's move to another spot across the Gulf of İzmir). Biography He was born on March 30, 1911 in the town of Tulkarm in the Beirut Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (today a Palestinian city in the West Bank), where his mother's family owned a large farm. He descended from a family of Ottoman intellectuals and religious men, several of whose members had assumed the office of mufti, the highest title of the Islamic clergy in a given region, for the Ottoman province of Herzegovina. His family moved back to İstanbul when he was two years old. For some time, they resided in another family farm, this time near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila Aşkar
Attila Aşkar (born September 4, 1943) is a Turkish civil engineer, scientist and former president of the Koç University in Rumelifeneri, Istanbul, Turkey during 2001 and 2009. Life Attila Aşkar was born on September 4, 1943 in Bolvadin, Afyonkarahisar Province-Turkey. He is the son of Kemal and Nüzhet Aşkar, and was married to ''Elsie Vance,'' the daughter of former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance on August 30, 1998. Education Aşkar graduated from St. Joseph High School in Istanbul, Turkey in 1961. He received his ''Diplom in Civil Engineering'' from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1966, and his PhD in Program in applied and computational mathematics founded by A. Cemal Eringen under the supervision of Ahmet Çakmak at Princeton University in the United States in 1969. Academic life He was the head in the department of Mathematics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. After losing the Boğaziçi University Rector ''(president)'' elections in Boğaziç ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engin Arık
Engin Arık (October 14, 1948 – November 30, 2007) was a Turkish particle physicist and professor at Boğaziçi University.Physics expert, baby among plane dead , November 30, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. Arik represented Turkey at the . She was known for her support of as an < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erdal Arıkan
Erdal Arıkan is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his implementation of polar coding. Career Academic background Arıkan briefly served as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Bilkent University as a faculty member in 1987. In 2008 Arıkan improved the implementation of polar codes, a system of coding that provides a mathematical basis for the solution of Shannon's channel capacity problem. A three-session lecture on the matter given in January 2015 at Simons Institute's Information Theory Boot Camp at the University of California, Berkeley is available on YouTube. The lecture is also featured on the Simons Institute webpage, which includes the slides used by Arıkan in his presentation. Arıkan is an IEEE Fellow, and was chosen as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-2015. Awards In 2010, Arıkan received thIEEE Infor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cahit Arf
Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups and Arf rings. Biography Cahit Arf was born on 11 October 1910 in Selanik (Thessaloniki), which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire. His family migrated to Istanbul with the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912. The family finally settled in İzmir where Cahit Arf received his primary education. Upon receiving a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Education he continued his education in Paris and graduated from École Normale Supérieure. Returning to Turkey, he taught mathematics at Galatasaray High School. In 1933 he joined the Mathematics Department of Istanbul University. In 1937 he went to Göttingen, where he received his PhD from the University of Göttingen and he worked with Helmut H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oya Araslı
Oya Araslı (born in 1943) is a female Turkish academic and politician. She was born in Bursa to Kemal and Naciye Tezel. After studying at Faculty of Law in the Istanbul University she he earned a doctorate at the Ankara University, Law School, Faculty of Law in Ankara University. She chose academic career and became the professor of constitution. Her husband was Doğan Araslı (died in 1990), a well known politician in Republican People's Party (CHP). Oya Araslı in politics After CHP was reestablished, Oya Araslı became a member of the party. Between 8 January 1996 - 18 April 1999 she was elected as an MP from Mersin Province. Although she was offered a candidateship for the next election held on 18 April 1999, she declined the offer protesting the party policy towards the female candidates. (Nevertheless, in the elections, her party was unable to receive more than 10% of the votes which is required to qualify to participate in the parliament.) Her second term in parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İhsan Oktay Anar
İhsan Oktay Anar (born 1960 in Yozgat, Turkey), is a Turkish writer, illustrator, literature translator and an academic. He studied philosophy in Ege University on undergraduate (1984), graduate (1989) and doctoral levels. Anar now teaches at the same university, lecturing in antique philosophy and Greek. In 2009, he won the Erdal Öz Literature Award "for his valuable novels and original style". Anar published his first novel, The Atlas of Misty Continents (''Puslu Kıtalar Atlası'') in 1995, also have a comic book version by caricaturist İlban Ertem, released in Spring of 2015. His novels are fantasy pieces supported by historical facts and rumors especially related to the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ... and a narration resembling fairy tale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Altan
Mehmet Hasan Altan (born 11 January 1953) is a Turkish academic economist, journalist, and author of over 25 books. Describing himself as a "Marxist-liberal", he is the originator of the term "Second Republic", arguing that Turkey needs to reconstitute its republic as a true democracy. He is a strong supporter of the Accession of Turkey to the European Union. Background He was born 1953 in Ankara, Turkey to the journalist and writer Çetin Altan as the second of two sons. His brother Ahmet Altan is also a journalist and writer. Altan studied at the Sorbonne University from 1979 to 1984, completing masters and doctoral degrees in economics.'' Hurriyet Daily News'', 18 April 2009Provocative politics as the family business/ref> Career Altan has worked faculty of economics of the Istanbul University since 1986 becoming an associate professor in 1987 and a full professor in 1993. He was dismissed in the aftermath of the failed coup d'état attempt of 2016 and wasn't re-hired since. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedat Alp
Prof. Ord. Sedat Alp (January 1, 1913 in Veroia – October 9, 2006 in Ankara) was the first Turkish archaeologist, historian and academic with a specialization in Hittitology, and was among the foremost names in the field. He was the president of the Turkish Historical Association from 1982 to 1983. Sedat Alp was born in Karaferye, present-day Veroia in Greece. His family moved to Turkey as a result of the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923. In 1932, he earned a state scholarship opened under the personal auspices of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and was sent to the University of Leipzig (he later transferred to the University of Berlin) to study prehistory, history, Hittitology, Sumerology, Assyriology, ancient Anatolian languages and cultures, as well as archaeology in general. Having earned his doctorate in the University of Berlin, he returned to Turkey in 1940 and started to teach Hittitology within Ankara University's Faculty of Languages, History and Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Vefik Alp
Ahmet Vefik Alp (31 May 1948 – 10 January 2021) was a Turkish architect and urbanist. Early life and education Alp was born in 1948 in Kadıköy, İstanbul. He was a graduate of Saint Joseph High School. He obtained the degrees of architect and diplome architect in 1971 and 1973 from Istanbul Technical University with high honors. He was appointed as assistant professor of architecture in 1973. In 1979, Alp received his masters and doctorate degrees from the School of Architecture at Rice University. His doctoral dissertation was entitled ''Aesthetic Response to Geometry in Architecture' focuses into the domain of aesthetics and architectural / environmental psychology.'' Academia In 1982, Alp was invited to the College of Environmental Design at King Fahd University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he taught for seven years. During that period, he designed the Turkish embassy and staff housing complex in the Riyadh diplomatic quarter and supervised its construction. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Alkan
Ahmet Ugur Alkan is a Turkish economist and the former dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in .... Alkan is a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. (Accessed September 2012) External links Ahmet Alkan's page at Sabancı University [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
