Historian
(b. 1917, İzmir – d. 27 June 1996). He graduated from Istanbul University,
Faculty of Literature, Department of History. He became an assistant (1946) and
associate professor (1953) at the department from which he graduated. He was a
member of the Constitutional Assembly (1961), and afterwards returned to the
university and was appointed as professor of Modern History (1963) and retired
in 1983.
He was a member of the Atatürk
Culture, Language and History Advanced Association, the Turkish Historical
Society and the Historical Works and Monuments Committee. A gift book was
published in his name by İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department
of History (1997).
WORKS:
Patrona Halil İsyanı 1730 (The Patrona Halil Rebellion 1730, 1958), Girit Meselesi
1866-1889 (The Crete Issue 1866- 1889, 1967), 1720-1724 Osmanlı-İran
Münasebetleri ve Silahşör Kemanî Mustafa Ağa'nın Revan Fetihnamesi
(Ottoman- Persian Relations and the Smooth Book of Conquest of Swordsman Kemanî
Mustafa Ağa, 1970), Mehmed Emnî Beyefendi (Paşa)'nın Prusya Seferi ve
Sefaretnamesi (The Prussian Expedition of Mehmed Emnî Paşa, 1974).