Mehmet Saray

Historian

Education
Istanbul University Faculty of Literature, Department of History

Historiographer (b. 1942, Dinar / Afyon). He attended secondary school in Çivrili and Isparta. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of History (1966). He completed his doctorate with Turkmen in the Age of Imperialism in England where he had been for his doctorate studies from 1968 to 1978. In 1978 he was appointed as an assistant to the department that he graduated from. In 1983 he became an assistant professor with his thesis called “Rus İşgali Döneminde Osmanlı Devleti ile Türkistan Hanlıkları Arasındaki Siyasî Münasebetler -1775-1875” (Political Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkistan Kingdom during the Russian Occupation - 1775-75) and in 1988 a professor with his thesis “Afganistan ve Türkler” (Afghanistan and the Turks). On 8 November 1995 he was elected Principle Member of the Science Committee of the Atatürk Research Center. From 1992 to 1996 he was the Turkic Republics Head Consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the same time he was involved with the projects Ortak Türk Edebiyatı (Common Turkish Literature), Ortak Türk Tarihi (Common Turkish History), Ortak Türk Sözlüğü (Common Turkish Dictionary), Ortak Türk Alfebesi (Common Turkish Alphabet) that were prepared with scientists from the Turkic Republics.

He taught the History of Republic of Turkey and New Turkic Republics as Chairman of the Department of the History of the Republic of Turkey at İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of History.

Since 1982 his essay works have been published in Cultura Turcica, Assian and African Studies, Korea Journal of Islamic Culture, Eurasian Studies, Türk Kültürü Araştırmaları, Türk Kültürü, Kafkas Araştırmaları, İ.Ü. Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi, İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Prof. Bekir Kütükoğlu'na Armağan, İstanbul 1991, Türk Edebiyatı, İ.Ü. Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi, Avrasya Etütleri, Emel, Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi, Atatürk Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Araştırmaları Dergisi, Askeri Tarih Dergisi, Çanakkale Muharebelerinin 75. yıldönümü Özel Sayısı reviews and publications. He has presented papers related to his field at symposiums and congresses.

WORKS:

Rusya'nın Türk İllerinde Yayılması (Spreading of Russia in Turkish Nations, 1975), Dünden Bugüne Afganistan (Afghanistan from Past to Present, 1981), Rus İşgali Devrinde Osmanlı Devletiyle Türkistan Hanlıkları Arasındaki Siyasi Münasebetler 1775-1875 (Political Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkistan Kingdom during the Russian Occupation 1775-1875, 1994), Atatürk İlkeleri ve Dayandığı Tarihi Temeller (Principles of Atatürk and the Historical Foundations that They were Based on, with Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kafesoglu, 1983), Afganistan ve Türkler (Afghanistan and the Turks, 1987), Türk Dünyasında Eğitim Reformu ve Gaspiralı İsmail Bey (Education Reform in the Turkish World and Mr. İsmail from Gaspira,1988), The Turkmens in the Age of Imperialism 1989, Türk-İran Münasebetlerinde Şiiliğin Rolü (Role of Shi’ism in the Relations between the Turkish and Iran, 1990), Atatürk'ün Sovyet Politikası (Soviet Politics of Atatürk, 1990), Atatürk ve Türk Dünyası (Atatürk and Turkish World, 1990), Azerbaycan Türkleri Tarihi (History of the Turks of Azerbaijan, 1993), Kazak Türkleri Tarihi (History of the Turks of Kazak, 1993), Kırgız Türkleri Tarihi (History of the Turks of Kyrgyz, 1993), Özbek Türkleri Tarihi (History of the Turks of Uzbek, 1993.), Türkmen Tarihi (History of Turkmen, 1993), A Short History of Turkish Islamic States Excluding the Ottoman State, with İbrahim Kafesoğlu and Hakkı Dursun Yıldız, 1994, Yeni Türk Cumhuriyetleri Tarihi (History of New Turkic Republics, 1996), Afganistan ve Türkler (Afghanistan and the Turks, 1997), Doğu Türkistan Tarihi (History of East Turkmenistan, 1997), Türk-Rus Münasebetlerinin Analizi (Analysis of Relations between the Turkish and Russian, 1998), Türk Devletlerinde Meclis, Atatürk ve Demokratik Düşünce  (The Grand Assembly, Atatürk and Democratic Thought in the Turkic States, 1999), Türk-İran İlişkileri (Relations between the Turkish and Iran, 1999), Sovyet Tehdidi Dolayısıyla Türkiye'nin NATO'ya Girişi (Entry of Turkey into NATO Because of the Threat of Russia, 2000), Türklerde Dini ve Kültürel Hoşgörü, Atatürk ve Laiklik (Religious and Cultural Tolerance in the Turks, Atatürk and Secularism).

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