Haluk Şahin is a Turkish journalist, academic and television producer. Having received his
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
from
Indiana University in 1974, he was a lecturer at
Istanbul Bilgi University
Istanbul Bilgi University ( tr, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi), officially established in 1996, is a private university located in Istanbul, Turkey.
The university has 4 campuses centrally-located in Istanbul namely SantralIstanbul, Kuştepe, Do ...
as of 2013.
Shortly after the release of the film ''
Troy'' in 2004, an article in ''
Radikal'' written by Şahin and entitled "Were the Trojans Turks?" attracted public interest and generated a debate over the significance of
Troy and the
Trojan War in modern Turkey. In 2006, he was among five journalists who stood trial on charges of attempting to influence the outcome of a trial through their writing, and of publicly denigrating Turkish identity and the institutions of the Turkish state. The charges were later dropped.
References
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni
Indiana University alumni
Living people
1941 births
Academic staff of Istanbul Bilgi University
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