The conference titled “Looking at Turkish History Holistically (What Does History Tell Us?)” by Prof. Dr. Azmi Özcan.

As part of the “Science, Culture, and Art Conferences” series organized by our Society, Prof. Dr. Azmi Özcan will deliver a lecture titled “Looking at Turkish History Holistically (What Does History Tell Us?)” on Friday, January 17. We cordially invite all members of the community to attend this conference, which will be held at our Sıhhiye campus.
PROF. DR. AZMİ ÖZCAN
Prof. Dr. Azmi Özcan completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Theology, Ankara University, in 1983. He earned his Master’s degree from the University of Manchester in 1986 and his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 1990, with a thesis titled “Indian Muslims and the Ottomans 1877-1914: A Study of Indo-Muslim Attitudes to Pan-Islamism and Turkey.” Prof. Dr. Özcan worked as a researcher at the Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) until 2001 and served as the institution’s president during the 1996-1997 period. He has held academic positions at Boğaziçi University, Marmara University, and Sakarya University. From 2007 to 2016, he served as the founding rector of Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University. He is currently continuing his academic work at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. His primary research areas include Ottoman-Indian relations, colonialism, contemporary Ottoman political history, and Ottoman-British relations. Some of his notable publications include Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans, and Britain (1877-1924), The Caliphate Debates in England 1873-1909, and The Press and Anglo-Ottoman Relations, 1876–1909.