Ilber Ortayli

Ilber ORTAYLI is the director of the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul. He is a leading Turkish historian, and professor of history at Galatasaray University, Istanbul, and Bilkent University, Ankara. He has published widely on Ottoman and Russian history, with a particular emphasis on cities and the history of public administration, diplomatic, cultural and intellectual history. He obtained a PhD from Ankara University, and completed his postgraduate studies at Chicago University and the University of Vienna.