Tahsin or Tasin Gemil (born September 21, 1943) is a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n historian, translator, diplomat, and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1996, and was Ambassador to

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

(1998–2003) and

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

(since 2004). The author of over 100 works on 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

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, he has translated into

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documents written in Ottoman Turkish. Gemil is a professor at the

Ovidius University Ovidius University of Constanța ( ro, Universitatea "Ovidius" din Constanța) is a public higher education institution in Constanța, Romania founded in 1961 as a Pedagogical Institute and transformed into a comprehensive university in 1990. ...

in Constanța (its

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since 2004).

Life and career

Born in

Medgidia Medgidia ( or ; historical Turkish names: ''Karasu'' or ''Carasu'', ''Mecidiye'' or ''Megidie'') is a city in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, south-eastern Romania. History Archaeological findings show that Dobruja was inhabited since th ...

to an ethnic Tatar Muslim family, Gemil completed primary and secondary studies in his native town, and graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the

University of Iași The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University ( Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia M ...

(1965), where he later received a PhD.Tahsin Gemil's Profile
at the Ministry of Foreign AffairsProfile at the Chamber of Deputies site
/ref> He was employed by the A. D. Xenopol Institute of History and Archeology in Iași, and later by the

Nicolae Iorga Institute of History The Nicolae Iorga Institute of History ( ro, Institutul de Istorie „Nicolae Iorga”; abbreviation: IINI) is an institution of research in the field of history under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. The institute is located at 1 Bulevardul A ...

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

. A native speaker of Crimean Tatar and Romanian, Gemil has studied Ottoman and

Modern Turkish Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smal ...

, Turkmen, and Azerbaijani, as well as having a grasp of English, French, Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz. In the months following the 1989 Revolution, he joined the new provisional governing authority, CPUN, created around the National Salvation Front. After the 1990 legislative election, he represented

Constanța County Constanța () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 684,082 and the population density was 96/km2. The degr ...

in the Chamber, sitting with the Turkish Democratic Union (UDTR) group, serving on the Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sport, as well as on the Committee on Human Rights, Religious Affairs and National Minority Issues. He was among the founding members of the

Democratic Union of Turco-Islamic Tatars of Romania The Democratic Union of Turkic-Muslim Tatars of Romania is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Tatar community. History The party was formed on 29 December 1989 as the Turkish Muslim Democratic Union of Romania (''Uni ...

(UDTTR), and its first president, being reelected for the same constituency in the 1992 suffrage (after which Gemil was Secretary of the Education Committee). He was among the members of

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on the delegation sent to the

Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation The Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is a regional international organization focusing on multilateral political and economic initiatives aimed at fostering cooperation, peace, stability and prosperity in the Black Sea ...

. Tahsin Gemil is married to Nafiye Gemil, and has fathered a daughter (born in 1970).

References

External links

''Turkmenistan. Foreign Embassies, Missions and International Organizations'', at the United States Embassy in Ashgabat site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gemil, Tahsin Ambassadors of Romania to Azerbaijan Ambassadors of Romania to Turkmenistan Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Romanian politicians of ethnic minority parties People from Medgidia 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian Muslims Romanian translators Romanian people of Crimean Tatar descent Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni 1943 births Living people 21st-century Romanian historians