It has been 10 years since the Izmir Mediterranean Academy was founded. In the intervening time, both Izmir and the Mediterranean have undergone and are still undergoing considerable change.
While closely monitoring and interpreting this transformation, the Izmir Mediterranean Academy itself continues to evolve and change.
In the meantime, it has clearly emerged that Izmir has become a destination also for intellectual migration, a city where people with a desire to create and produce settle, or even take refuge. İzmir was a city where originated some of the grand narratives that gave birth to the founding myths of the Aegean and the Mediterranean, and even the world; a city through which passed the Eastern and Western trade routes which extended across the entire length of the Mediterranean over a considerably long period of time; a city where fertile lands and the mountains and the sea, and art and richness are all intertwined; where migrations flow in and from all directions, and where all kinds of diversities can exist.
Today Izmir is a city where different views can be expressed side by side in an atmosphere of open debate while continuing their exploration and questioning. Although it is not free of the economic, ecological, and humanitarian problems of big cities, Izmir is nonetheless a city that never ceases to look for ways of solving every problem through communing. This is precisely why we are now able to witness how contemporary expressions find opportunities of representation in the Ancient Agora, one of the symbols of life in Izmir that is becoming increasingly visible today.
A large team worked together for a long time to imagine Izmir’s shoreline as an integral part of the lives of Izmir residents and to offer suggestions. While imagining the sea as being at the very center of life in the city, they came up with the motto, “Take Izmir to the Mediterranean and let the Mediterranean flow into Izmir”. The mission of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy can still be summarized with this same sentence.
While Izmir strives to render the ties between its past and present more legible, the relations it will renew and tighten with the Mediterranean will doubtless play a determining role.
Of all the seas in the world, the Mediterranean is perhaps the most desired; a microcosm whose stories, whose wealth and poverty, wars and civilizations, catastrophes and miracles, heroes and victims all intermingle. While on the one hand it continues to give us all lessons with its history, on the other, it presents a chaotic theater of disaster that seems to be unsolvable and often threatens the lives and wrings the hearts of all humans, and, indirectly, all living creatures on earth. The problems of the Mediterranean and the methods and solutions it will find as it solves them will shed light on everyone’s future.
It is precisely on such grounds that the Izmir Mediterranean Academy is being restructured.
This restructuring is shaped around certain basic precepts that have gained clarity within a participatory process, which the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has embraced as its way of working:
. Nurturing and cultivating intellectual capital within and around its own organization in the decision-making process while making use of the resources of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality,
. Ensuring the broadest participation of parties from all segments of public, civil, and private life in Izmir in all areas in which the Academy operates,
. Preparing a favorable environment for the emergence of new ideas and research on Izmir and the Mediterranean,
. When developing collaborations, expanding efforts to include partners from Europe and primarily the Mediterranean, but also from around the world,
. Emphasizing interdisciplinary work by taking into consideration the cross-fertilization between various disciplines of science and art,
. When carrying out any sort of research or project, envisaging from the outset the innovative means of communication that will help deliver the results and outputs to communities,
. With the awareness that the Mediterranean is a sea of languages, conducting all activities with multilingualism in mind, starting with Turkish and English,
. Regarding the research and education dimension as a sine qua non in any kind of activity or project,
. Using participatory thinking, deliberation, and decision-making methods in all processes, starting with the Academy team and the Board,
. Striving in any work or action to continue reimagining Izmir and the Mediterranean while maintaining the tradition peculiar to them of creating together and having fun together.
As the Izmir Mediterranean Academy enters its second decade, those of us who are to be part of this challenging and exhilarating process are well aware that an inquisitive, critical, and innovative approach is necessary for the precepts I have listed above to be fulfilled.
We are setting out to say something that shows that through our work we stand up for Izmir, the Mediterranean, nature and the human being, and, of course, the future of the earth.
Serhan Ada
August 2023
IZMIR MEDITERRANEAN ACADEMY MANIFEST -2012
In today’s world, the economies compete with one another through big cities. For that reason, management of big cities not only give service to their citizens, but also undertake leading role of their cities in competing in the field of economy. Thus, the variety of function has been reflected to the local government law of Turkiye.
IZMIR MEDITERRANEAN ACADEMY BOARD

Serhan Ada
- President of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy
DEVAMI
Serhan Ada is an Assistant Professor at the faculty of Art and Cultural Management Department since 25 years, and Director of Cultural Policy and Management Research Center at İstanbul Bilgi University. He is also the Head of UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy of the same university. Ada has been a visiting professor in various universities in Paris, Barcelona, Lyon, Beirut, Turin, Hildesheim, Venice, Warwick and New Jersey. Ada is the chief editor of Cultural Policy Yearbook a bi-lingual journal published in English and Turkish and the editor and writer of the books titled Introduction to Cultural Policy in Turkey (2009) and also Turkish Cultural Policy Report: A Civil Perspective (2011) focusing on the civil society’s perspective on cultural policy in Turkey. Ada has written extensively on cultural policy, cities and art theory. Between 2012-2022, he collaborated to Izmir Mediterranean Academy as Culture Coordinator. He works as an expert of the Culture Committee of UCLG. He also collaborated to Istanbul European Capital of Culture (2010) as Urban Culture and Big Events Director and has been the founding director of santralistanbul (2007) a derelict power plant of the Ottoman state transformed into an arts, culture and education center in Istanbul.
Ada is a member of the Scientific Board of the UNESCO Regional Bureau in Venice since December 2022.
He also writes poetry and essays. Lately in 2021 he was the curator of the retrospective exhibition of the American-Lebanese artist Etel Adnan “The Impossible Homecoming” in Pera Museum, Istanbul.

Raşit Çavaş
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Born in Muğla in 1954, Raşit Çavaş has worked for various publishing houses since 1972. Apart from his short-term copywriting, he worked as a proofreader, reductor, editor in publishing houses, and worked as a manager and article writer in dictionaries and encyclopedias (AnaBritannica and Turkish Historical Society’s Istanbul Encyclopedia).
Çavaş worked at the Süleymaniye Library between the years 1975-1976 and at the Istanbul Atatürk Cultural Center between 1978-1980. In 2005, he left his job as the Editor-in-Chief of Oğlak Publications, which he founded with his partner in 1993.
Serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Yapı Kredi Publications (YKY) between 2005 and 2013, Çavaş has published about 1500 books and created serials.
During his years at YKY, he initiated the establishment of Koç University Press and acted as a consultant to the Editorial Board. Between 2020-2022, he founded a publishing house at Izmir University of Economics, built the corporate identity of the publishing house, and published books.
He has been working as the Editor-in-Chief of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Publications since the fall of 2022. Cavas is a devoted Tex Willer fan.

Güven Eken
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Güven Eken graduated from Ege University, Faculty of Medicine in 1996. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked as the Ecological Networks Coordinator at BirdLife International in the Netherlands. Between 2004 and 2014, Eken served as the general manager and then the president of Doğa Foundation. Between 2001 and 2005, he worked as the nature editor of Atlas Magazine and editor of Yeşil Atlas. He worked as a columnist for Radikal Newspaper from 2009 and 2012.
The Key Biodiversity Areas approach, which Eken and his colleagues devised in 2004 and published in BioScience magazine, was adopted by IUCN (World Union for the Conservation of Nature) in 2016 as the international standard for determining the protected natural areas.
Through a 2004 publication, Eken established that Anatolia was counted as one of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots. Key Biodiversity Areas of Turkey, a two-volume inventory edited by Eken, was published by Doğa Foundation in 2006.
Eken, who contributed to the support of opinion leaders to Doğa Foundation, contributed to the development of the movement against dams and hydroelectric power plants in Turkey, especially in Hasankeyf. He was selected as one of Turkey’s difference makers in May 2011 due to his work on nature.
Eken, who published four books and many articles, founded Seferihisar Nature School in 2013 with the partnership of Doğa Foundation and Seferihisar Municipality. Since 2019, he has been working as the Consular to the Mayor in Izmir Metropolitan Municipality.
Eken carries out studies on the planning of circular cultural cities within the scope of his duty at Izmir Metropolitan Municipality.

Thierry Fabre
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Thierry Fabre is an essayist, researcher and exhibition curator. Rencontres d’Averroès, which he founded in 1994, invites a wide audience of researchers, historians and thinkers to think about contemporary, historical and international issues every November in Marseille.
He was the director of the Mediterranean Program of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMéRA) at the University of Aix-Marseille until 2023.
He was the general curator of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations’s (MuCEM) opening exhibition “Le Noir et le Bleu. Un rêve méditerranéen” [Black and Blue. A Mediterranean dream], the editor-in-chief of La Pensée de midi magazine and the director of at Actes Sud Publishing’s BLUE collection.
He is the author of numerous texts, books, catalogs and articles inspired by the Mediterranean.

Hanane Hajj Ali
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Hanane Hajj Ali is an actress, author, and cultural activist, as well as a prominent figure on the Lebanese cultural and artistic scene. As a researcher, she has contributed to the writing and editing of numerous works, including “Introduction to Cultural Policies in the Arab World” and “Theatre of Beirut”.
Hajj Ali is a founder and member of the board of directors of several cultural institutions and artistic organizations such as “Culture Resource” [Al Mawred Athaqafi], “Action for Hope” and “Ettijahate”.
In 2015, she was elected a member of the UNESCO Expert Fund for “the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. In 2017, she was decorated “Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters” by the French Ministry of Culture.
Her latest performance, “Jogging”, was awarded the “Vertebra Prize for Best Actor” at the Fringe / Edinburgh International Festival. In addition to her artistic activity, Hanane Hajj Ali teaches in the theatrical studies department of the Institute for Stage, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies (IESAV) at Saint Joseph University.

Sarp Keskiner
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Sarp Keskiner has been writing, recording and designing content since 1994. He has also been composing and producing music for theater plays, radio dramas, documentaries and contemporary art projects since late 90’s.
As an editor and journalist, some of the independent cultural institutions that Keskiner had contributed to their establishment or continuity are as follows; Radioactive, Açık Radyo, ROLL, Express, REC, Rock World, Karga Magazine and Sanatatak. He has released more than thirty albums up to this date; as well as running numerous bands as a founder member.
Since 1996, Keskiner has been developing programs based on resource and audience development, networking, strengthening accessibility to culture, sustainable content development and continuity in documentation, with various initiatives, collectives and associations of which he is a founding member and director. Currently he provides consultancy to independent initiatives, cultural venues, publications, non-governmental organizations and local governments, operating in various cities in cooperation with national and international networks of which he is a member of.

Elif Kocabıyık Savasta
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Elif Kocabıyık Savasta is an instructor at Izmir University of Economics Department of Industrial Design. She received her Ph.D. degree from Istanbul Technical University Department of Industrial Product Design (2012) and was a visiting researcher at Sheffield Hallam University in the academic year of 2008-2009.
Her research interests include the historical, cultural and social context of design, design policy, theory and methodology in design. Her research focuses on the design culture and evolution of everyday objects and methods of working with collections.
She has undertaken various tasks and organised events to increase the design culture and capacity of Izmir on an international scale: Agrindustrial Design conferences, Izmir’s World Design Capital application, World Design Talks Co-living Izmir event, World Industrial Design Day celebration events, Good Design Izmir events.
She was the chairperson of Industrial Designers’ Society of Turkey Izmir

Ioanna Kuçuradi
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Ioanna Kuçuradi was born on October 4, 1936 in Istanbul. She graduated from Zapyon Girls’ High School in 1954 and attended Istanbul University’s Department of Philosophy in 1959. She received her Ph.D. in 1965. Kuçuradi worked as an Assisant Professor at Erzurum Atatürk University between the years 1965-1968. She became Associate Professor of Philosophy in 1970 and Professor in 1978.
She was appointed to Hacettepe University in 1968. She served as the Head of the Department of Philosophy, from the year it was founded in 1969 until her retirement in 2003. She was the Founding Director of the Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights, Hacettepe University (1997-2005). She is the holder of the UNESCO Chair on Philosophy and Human Rights since 1998.
Appointed to Maltepe University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy in 2006, Kuçuradi is the Director of the Human Rights Research and Application Center and the Head of the Human Rights Department of the same University. She has been the president of the Philosophical Society of Turkey since 1979.
She is the president of the Philosophy Committee of the UNESCO National Commission in Turkey.

Eyüp Özveren
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Prof. Eyüp Özveren graduated from the Economics Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU). He completed his graduate studies at the State University of New York-Binghamton. He worked at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations of the same university. He received his Ph.D. degree (1990) with his thesis “An Ottoman Port City: Beirut, Its Land and the World Economy in the Nineteenth-Century.”
He worked as a faculty member at METU from 1991 until his retirement in 2018. He was a visiting researcher and professor at Atatürk Institute for the Study of Modern Turkey at Boğaziçi University, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris, France) and Institüt für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien, Bremen Universität (Germany).
As of the 1990s, he took part in major international networks and events in the field of Mediterranean Studies, and contributed to the field with numerous publications in Turkish and English in history, literature and art. Among these are “Port-Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, 1800-1914” he co-edited with Çağlar Keyder and Donald Quataert as a special issue of Review, a journal of the Fernand Braudel Center (1993), as well as his outlier transdisciplinary work, Akdeniz’de Bir Doğu (An Orient in the Mediterranean, in Turkish, Dost Publishing House, Ankara, 2000).
He also has several publications on İzmir. The book Mediterranean Port Cities: Connectivity in Modern Times, he co-edited with Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu and Tülin Selvi Ünlü will be published by Springer in 2023.

Zeyno Pekünlü
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Zeyno Pekünlü (b. 1980, Izmir) She obtained her M.A. from University of Barcelona, her Ph.D. from Mimar Sinan University. She is currently running Public Programmes of Istanbul Biennail, Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Program (ÇAP) and the Istanbul Cell of Fellowship for Situated Practice organized by BAK Utrecht. She is part of the editorial board of e-journal Red Thread and member of IRI (Institute of Radical Imagination). Together with artist Köekn Ergun she is co-founder of the initiative KIRIK.
Scanning a range of issues, from the construction of maleness and femaleness as gender roles to questioning knowledge and its distribution, her works aims to decipher “power” that encompasses the intimate and the social simultaneously. Her important shows include; 2022 The Real Show, CAC Brétigny, 2021 Once Upon a Time Inconceivable, Protocinema/ This Place, Yapı Kredi Arts and Culture/ 39th EVA International-Ireland’s Biennial, 2020 Artists in Quarantine, The museum confederation L’Internationale, 2016-2017 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International/White Chapel Gallery/Hammer Museum/MAAT/Istanbul Modern Museum, 2016 Zeyno Pekünlü, SALT Ulus, 2015 Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI Museum/ Salt Water, 14th Istanbul Biennial/ Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present, Jakarta Biennale/ Every Inclusion is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities, SALT Beyoglu/ Sights and Sounds: Turkey, Jewish Museum, New York

Sana Tamzini
DEVAMI
Sana Tamzini is a Visiting Professor in Interior Design at AURAK (American University, Ras Al Khaimah) since 2021 and serves as the President of Fanak Fund, a global non-profit supporting cultural entrepreneurs and artists in the Arab-speaking world, Europe, and the Middle East. With Tunisian roots, she combines artistic sensibilities with expertise in Designing Cultural Policies, gained through her research at the Higher School of Design Science and Technology in Tunis. Her contributions to international cultural cooperation and contemporary art curation constitutes a passionate advocate for artistic expression, and Dr. Tamzini leads the Federation of Cultural Associations in Tunisia (FACT). She has also held key roles in cultural policy within the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Protection as the Head of the Fine Arts sector and has conducted extensive research in Creative & Cultural Industries (CCI) and Cultural & Creative entrepreneurship. Dr. Tamzini collaborates with organizations like UNESCO, EU, and EUNIC, bringing her technical expertise to international project development and implementation.

Betül Tanbay
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Betül Tanbay is a professor of Mathematics at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She was founder and first co-director of the Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences. She was the first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society, and she has also served and serves in many
committees including the International Mathematical Union and the European Mathematical Society.
She has been a member of the initial Scientific Council at the Mediterranean Institute for Advances Studies (IMéRA).
Tanbay received her undergraduate degree from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg and graduate degrees from UC Berkeley.

Catarina Vaz Pinto
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Catarina Vaz Pinto holds a Law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), Lisbon (1983), and a post-graduation degree in European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges (1986).
She previously was the State Secretary for Culture (1997-2000) and assistant to the Minister of Culture (1995-1997) in the government of Portugal. She has been Deputy-Mayor for Culture of the Lisbon City Council for 12 years (2009-2021), and served as the executive manager of the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2003-2007).
Vaz Pinto is a cultural manager and independent consultant in the areas of cultural policy and development, cultural and artistic education, and a member of the European Cultural Foundation Supervisory Board since 2021.

Dea Vidović
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Dr. Dea Vidović obtained her Ph.D. in Comparative literature and Indology from the University of Zagreb in 2012. With over twenty years of experience, she has worked as a manager, researcher, editor, and journalist. She has published professional and scientific articles and books, edited publications, participated in international conferences and public events, collaborated with various organizations and experts in Croatia and abroad, led and implemented international projects.
She has been the Director of Kultura Nova Foundation since 2012. She has taught cultural policy at the University of Zagreb’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, and since 2016, she has been teaching at the Zagreb School of Business.
Her interests span several fields, including governance, democratic innovation, cultural democracy, cultural participation, cultural adaptation, and environmental transition, systemic change, and post-growth economy.
She currently serves as a Vice-President of the European Network on Cultural Management and Policy (ENCATC) Board and Chief of Philea’s Art and Culture Thematic Collaboration.

Koray Velibeyoğlu
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Prof. Dr. Koray Velibeyoğlu is a professor and head of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Izmir Institute of Technology. After completing his undergraduate studies at Dokuz Eylül University, Department of City and Regional Planning (1994), he received his master’s (1998) and doctorate (2004) degrees at İzmir Institute of Technology. He completed his post-doctoral studies at METU Department of City and Regional Planning (2005) and Griffith University- Brisbane (2006).
Areas of his research are urban design, rural and regional planning, and urban theory and planning theories. The main foci of his research are knowledge management, asset based community development, nature-based solutions and smart cities.
Professor Velibeyoglu completed two EU-funded H2020 projects entitled “UrbanGreenUP: New Strategy for Re-Naturing Cities through Nature-Based Solutions” and “RURITAGE: Rural regeneration through systemic heritage-led strategies”. He also works as researcher in new Horizon Europe projects including EHHUR, Re-Value and CARDIMED.

Ümit Yalçın
- Academy Member of the Board
DEVAMI
Ümit Yalçın was born in Ankara in 1967. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations in 1989.
Yalçın joined the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989, and served at the Rotterdam Turkish Consulate General and Baghdad and Moscow Embassies. He served as Consul General at the Plovdiv Turkish Consulate General between 2005-2009 and at the Turkish Consulate General in Dubai between 2009-2012. During this period, he also worked in various political departments (Eastern and Western Europe and Middle East Departments, and Special Advisor to the Minister) at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Appointed as the Turkish Ambassador to Kuwaiti in 2012, Yalçın was given the role of Deputy Undersecretary for North Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2016 and 2018.
Ümit Yalçın served as the Turkish Ambassador to the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2023.
EMPLOYEES OF ACADEMY

Zekeriya ARABACI
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Bahar ARAT YAMA
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Ceyda KOYUNCU
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Çiçek TEZER YILDIZ
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Eriz Arda AYDIN
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Ertekin AKPINAR
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Ezgi ŞAİROĞLU
Helin KÜÇÜK
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İlayda GÜNEŞ
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Melek DEMİR
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Mustafa DEMİRÖZ
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Özay GÖZTEPE
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Öznur ATASEVER KIZILTAN
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Ulaş Şansal KILIÇKAYA
Prof. Dr. Halil INALCIK
Bilkent University Academic Member
Historian
Mediterranean Academy Founding Honorary President and Science Board Member
www.inalcik.com
İnalcık was born in Istanbul in 1917 and he is one of the prominent names of the Turkish historiography. He graduated from Ankara University Language, History and Geography Faculty in 1940. He started working as an assistant in the department of Contemporary History of the same faculty and he completed his doctorate with the thesis titled “Reforms and Bulgarian Problem” in two years.
He became a professor in 1952 and İNALCIK lectured in Language, History and Geography Faculty and Faculty of Political Sciences between 1956 and 1972. When he retired in 1972, he was invited to Chicago University. He lectured as a professor in the History Department of the University for 11 years between 1972 and 1983.
He was chosen as member of Turkish, Serbian, American, English and Albanian Academies. He received many awards including Repuclic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs Distinguished Service Medal, Presidency Culture and Art Grand Award, Ministry of Culture Art and Culture Grand Award and also Grand National Assembly of Turkey Grand Award. He has been working at Bilkent University since 1993.
MAJOR WORKS
Reforms and Bulgaria Affairs, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1943
Hijri 835 dated Suret-i Defter-i Sancak-ı Arvanid, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1954
Investigations and Documentaries in Fatih Era, Ankara : Turkish Historical Society, 1954
Hijri 835 dated Suret-i Defter-i Sancak-ı Arvanid, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1954
The Ottoman Empire: the Classical Age, 1300-1600, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1973.
Gazavât-ı Sultân Murâd b. Mehemmed Hân İzladi and Battle of Varna (1443-1444) Anonym Gazavâtnâme, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1978
Tursun Beg, The History of Mehmed the Conqueror, Chicago-Minnesota: American Research Institute, 1978 (R. Murphey ile birlikte).
The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy, London: Variorum Reprints, 1978.
Social and Economical History of Turkiye (1071-1920), Ankara: Meteksan, 1980 (editor with O. Okyar).
Studies in Ottoman Social and Economic History, London: Variorum Reprints, 1985.
Archieve Studies and Examination in Ottoman Empire Society and Economy. Istanbul: Eren, 1993.
The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire, Bloomington: Indiana University Turkish Studies and Turkish Ministry of Culture Joint Series Volume 9, 1993.
The History of the Black Sea Trade: the Register of Customs of Caffa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Suleyman the Second and his Time, Istanbul: Isis Press, 1994 (editor with C. Kafadar).
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (Halil İNALCIK has written between1300-1600 and editor with D. Quataert).
From Empire to Republic: Essays on Ottoman and Turkish Social History, Istanbul: Eren, 1995.
Essays in Ottoman History, Istanbul: Eren, 1998.
Ottoman, 12 books, Istanbul: Yeni Turkiye Press, 1999 (editor with N. Goyunc, E. İhsanoglu, Y. Halacoglu).
Government, Justice and Law in Ottoman Istanbul: Eren, 2000.
Poet and Boss, A Research on Patrimonial Government and Art Sâir ve Patron, Ankara: Dogu Batı Press, 2003.
Ottoman Civilization, 2 books, Istanbul: Ministry of Culture, 2004 (editor, with Gunsel Renda)
Articles on East&West I, Ankara: Dogu Batı Press, 2005.
Reforms/Ottoman Empire in Peiod of change, Ankara: Phoenix Press, 2006 (editor, with M. Seyitdanlıoglu).
Turkey and Europe in History, Istanbul: Eren, 2006.
Ataturk and Democratic Turkiye, Istanbul: Kırmızı Press, 2007.
Ottoman Sultans in Foundation Era, Istanbul: İsam Press, 2010.
Ottomans, Istanbul: Timas Press, 2010.
Ottoman Government in Foundation and Empire Period, Law Diplomacy, Istanbul: Timas Yayınları, 2011.
Has-bagcede ‘ays u tarab Nedîm, Sâir, Mutrib, Istanbul: İs Bankası Cultural Press, 2011.
Period of Identification with Reneissance Europe and Turkiye Civilization, Istanbul: İs Bankası Cultural Press, 2011.
Studies in the History of Textiles in Turkey, İs Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2011.
The Survey of Istanbul, Istanbul: İs Bankası Kultur Yayınlar, 2012.
HIS PROJECTS AND THE SCIENCE INSTITUTIONS HE FOUNDED
1. When Halil İNALCIK started working on kadi registries in 1950’s, he appealed to Museums General Directorate in Ankara for the registries which were found in dust and dirt and in a pile thrown away in a cell in Green Madrasa by Sultan I. Mehmed (1413-1421), to be put in order. This archive goes up to Fatih era and it is the oldest Ottoman Archive. These registries have unique value. General Director accepted his proposal of forming an organized archive from these registries. The registries were sent to Istanbul. They were bound and put in order. They were set in good order in a special archive in Bursa Archeology museum. And they have been put into service of researchers.
2. After the II. World War, in parallel with development of social and economic history researches in the world, İNALCIK founded International Association for Social and Economic History of Turkey which he thought it as a platform where Ottoman History would be researched on the base of these Dynamics, where the results would be presented to science world, and where historians, who are interested in the subject, would come in a regular basis.
and he, as the head of this union, presided 10 international congresses called International Congress on the Social and Economic History of Turkey. Dates and places of these congresses are:
Hacettepe Universitesi, Ankara (1977)
Strasbourg Universitesi, Strasbourg (1980)
Princeton Universitesi, Princeton (1983)
Munih (1986)
Istanbul (1989)
Aix-en-Provence (1992)
Heidelberg (1995)
Bursa (1998)
Dubrovnik (2001)
Venedik (2005 )
Viyana (2010)
3. The other Project INALCIK undertook is The History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind which was published by UNESCO. This work was planned as seven volumes. He, together with Prof. Peter Burke from Cambridge University, was assigned as the head editor of the fifth volume which comprises the years of 1500-1800 of this work. The book was Published in 1999. (History of Humanity-Scientific and Cultural Development: From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, London: Routledge, 1906).
4. Halil İNALCIK
Research Project / Istanbul History according to Ecclesiastical Registries: He started a new Project on evaluating city archive which contains about ten thousand books from Istanbul Ecclesiastical Court registries collections for Istanbul History in 1980’s. (This archive was placed in a special building of Office of Mufti of Istanbul. This archive was organized as a result of increasing interest in Islamic sciences and Islamic Law in II. Abdulhamid (1876-1905) era. It was attached to Shayk al-islam. This archive is primarily important not only for Istanbul History but also for general Ottoman city, craftsmen, trade, and law history.) Prof. İNALCIK came together with Prof. A. Kuran, Prof. Z. Toprak for this purpose. He sought ways to establish an institute or a foundation. Committee became larger when Prof. N. Atasoy joined into it. Establishing a foundation or an institute was planned. Because of the difficulties in obtaining financial sources, realizing the Project delayed a while. In the end, it was decided with the attempt of Prof. Atasoy that the Project would be started as a Project attached to Istanbul University Literature Faculty Art history center. The Project has been maintained with Sabancı University – Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) partnership since 1999. the first book of the Project was published with the title Istanbul Court Ecclesiastical Registry no:121 (prepared by S.N.Aykut, Istanbul, 2006)
5. Halil İnalcık founded Center for Ottoman Studies in Bilkent University in 2003. Halil İNALCIK donated copies of documents and books which he collected from different archives for years, research texts which were not completed, more than 1000 offprints and other materials to this center. It will be put into use of researchers in the center where classification Works have been carried out in the near future. Yalova Municipality Halil İNALCIK Research Institute
THE WORKS WHICH HE FOUNDED AND EDITED
Archivum Ottomanicum (The Hague, 1969, founder with T. Halasi-Kun)
Ottoman Research Journal (Istanbul, 1980, with H. Lowry ve N. Goyunc)
History of Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind, Book: V (History of Humanity- book, with V. P. Burke)
Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, Editor: with Fraqhui (Leiden: Brill, 45 books have been published since 1998 in these series)
Ottoman Civilization, 2 books (Istanbul: Ministry of Culture, 2001, the work has also been published in English)
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS WHICH HE ATTENDS THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Turcica (Paris)
Harvard Ukrainian Studies (Cambridge)
East European Quarterly (Boulder, Colorado)
Turk Tarih Kurumu Belgeler Dergisi
(Turkish Historical Society Documents Journal -Ankara)
Studia Islamica (Paris)
Dogu Batı (East West-Ankara)
SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION MEMBERSHIP
Turkish Historical Society, Founding Member
Association Internationale des Etudes du Sud-Est Européen, Member (1964-1974), President (1971-74)
Turkish Cultural Research Institute, Member (1960)
Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnost (Serbia Science and Art Academy), Belgrad, Member (1991)
The Royal Historical Society, London, Corresponding Member (1974)
The Royal Asiatic Society, London, Honorary Member (1978)
L’école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Visitor Director (1979)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (1983)
Turkiye Ataturk Supreme Council for Culture, Language and History, Member (1993)
Turkiye Science Academy, Honorary Member (1993)
Middle East Studies Association, Honorary Member (1994)
American Historical Association, Honorary Member (1995)
Middle East Society of North of America (MESA), Honorary Member
Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga (Nicolae Iorga Tarih Enstitusu), Bucharest, Honorary Member (1995)
The British Academy, Corresponding Member (1995)
Ministry of Culture 700th anniversary of Foundation of Ottoman Empire Editorial Board (1998)
General Directorate for Foundations Research Board, Member (1998)
Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington, Member (Administrative Board, 1998)
Halil İNALCIK Research Project, Sabancı University-in association with Packard Humanities Institute “Istanbul history according to Ser’iyye records (islam religion in court records), Istanbul History”, Honorary President (1999)
Vehbi Koc awards Selection Committee, Member (2002)
CONFERRED HONORARY PhD
Bosphorus University, Turkiye (1986)
University of Athens, Greece (1987)
Selcuk University, Turkiye (1992)
University of Jerusalem, Syria (1993)
University of Bucharest, Romania (1993)
Uludag University, Turkiye (1995)
University of Balıkesir (1999)
Sofia University, Bulgaria (2001)
Manas University, Kyrgyzstan (2004)
Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkiye (2005)
Koc University, Turkiye (2006)
Trakya University, Turkiye (2007)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2008)
Suleyman Demirel University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2008)
Pamukkale University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2008)
Yalova University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2009)
Mediterranean University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2009)
Cuhmuriyet University, Sivas (2010)
Erciyes University, Kayseri (2011)
Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences Title of Honorary PhD (2012)
AWARDS, MEDALS, ORDERS
Rockefeller Foundation Research Scholarship, Harvard University (1956)
Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) award, Organization of the Islamic Conference (1986)
T.R. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Medal of Distingusihed Service and Diploma (1991)
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Education and Research Foundation Award, ODTU (1992)
Sedat Simavi Foundation by Ottoman Empire Society and Economy work (Istanbul: Eren, 1993): best Work Award in Social Sciences, Istanbul (1993)
Titulesco Medal of Distingusihed Service, Romania Embassy, Ankara (1995)
Istanbul University Institute of Turkic Studies Award (1998)
Balıkesir University Appreciation Plaque (1999)
Turkish Cultural Service Foundation
Appreciation Plaque (2000)
Presidency of Hungary Oder of Merit (2002)
T.R. Ministry of Culture Great Arts and Culture Prize (2002)
Writers Union of Turkey, Sukran Beratı (2003)
Ministry of National Defence Plaque (2003)
Uskudar Municipality Plaque (2003)
Ankara University Appreciation Plaque (2003)
Bursa Foundation of Culture Art and Tourism, Award for Bursa National Culture Life (2004)
Turkish Organization of Administrators Award (2008)
Turkish Parliament Honour Award (2008)
Rotary International Career Award (2008)
Crimerian Foundation of Progress Honour Award (2009)
Bursa Honorary Citizenship Award (2010)
King Faysal International Prize(2011)
Turksoy Medal of Honour (2012)
Prof. Dr. İlhan TEKELİ
Middle East Technical University Academic Member
Urban and Regional Planner, Social Scientist
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Consultant
Mediterranean Academy Founding Honorary President, Science Board and Management Board Member
He was born in Izmir, in 1937. He completed his primary and secondary education in Izmir. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University Constructional Engineering Department.
He got master’s degree in City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University in 1964 and at Pennsylvania University in 1966. He did his doctorate in City Planning at Istanbul Technical University in 1968. He lectured at different universities abroad as a guest professor. He was a member of advisory committees in many municipalities and institutions.
He is the founder and member of Executive Committee of World Academy for Local Government and Democracy(WALD). He is the founder-head of Turkey Economic and Social History Foundation. He was a member of General Board of Council of Higher Education between 2004 and 2008.
TEKELİ has more than 50 books, more than 400 articles and conference notifications in different languages. He won many awards in the field of Social Sciences. He has lots of works in the fields of city and regional planning, planning theory, macro geography, migration geography and political behavior, local governments’ theory and history in Turkey, urbanization and urban policy, economic policy, economic history of Turkey, city and society history since 1964.
HIS CHOSEN PUBLISHINGS
İlhan Tekeli, Tarık Okyay: Story of the Dolmus, environment and Architecture Sciences Association, Ankara,1977, p.1-304.
İlhan Tekeli, Leila Erder: Migration as an Adaptation Process of Spatial Organization, Hacettepe university Publishing, Ankara,1978,p.1-388.
İlhan Tekeli, İlber Ortaylı: Evolution of Municipal Administration in Turkey Turk Administrators Association, Ankara,1978 p.1-312.
A Macro Approach to Spatial Organization in Turkey ODTU Architecture Faculty, Ankara, 1979.
İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin: Emergence of Statism in the Stage of Implementation, Turkey Documental Economy History.3, ODTU, Ankara, 1982, p.i-x, 1-356.
Urban Planning Conferences TMMOB Architectures Chamber, Ankara, 1991.
İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin: Turkey and European Community volume.l and II, Umit Publishing, Ankara,1993.
The Development of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area, Urban Administration and Planning, IULA-EMME, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, 1994.s., 1-320
Thinking on Historiography, Dost Bookstore, Ankara, 1998,p.1-168.
Consciousness and, Youth, A Comparative Survey in Europe and Turkey, History Foundation Yurt Publishing, 1998, i-xi, 1-258.
HIS BOOKS
Story of the house in life and Literature in Turkey (1923 – 1980), History Foundation Yurt Publishing,
Life stories with the things that he could tell and he couldn’t History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Usak Central Committee when passing from Civil Resistance in Aegean region to War of Independence and İbrahim (TahtaKılıc) Bey, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Turkish History Institution Publishing
NGO’s and participating Democracy writings for Turkey , History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Education Writings for Turkey History Foundation Yurt Publishing
City, City rights, Urbanization and urban Renewal , History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Social System Writings, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Settlement System and settlement dates in Anatolia, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Politics and democracy writings for Turkey, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Design, Architecture and Architectures, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
To think Residence Problem with Residence Presenting Ways, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Daily Life, Life Quality, and Localness Writings, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Industry writings For Industry Society, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Information Science Writings of the Spatial and the Social, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Urban Transportation History Writings for Istanbul and Ankara, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Modernism, Modernity and Turkey’s City Planning History, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
from wise Planning to Planning as a democracy Project, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Urban Plot, infrastructure and urban services, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
To protect Natural and Historical Environment within the context of Culture Politics and Human Rights, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Turkey Financial Development Plan in the Post War Environment in 1947, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Bilge Culture Art
Formation of Statism in Turkey When Passing into Practice, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Bilge Culture Art
Municipalism Story of the Republic (1923-1990), History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Turkey’s Financial Politics Searches of Turkey in the World Recession of 1929, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Bilge Culture Art
Migration and beyond, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Formation and transformation of Education and Information Producing System in Ottoman Empire, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Turkish History Institution Publishing
Regional Inequality in Turkey and Regional Planning writings, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Towards a History Which is written and learned Together, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Mortar of the Republic Volume: 3 when infrastructure of Modernity forms, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing
Mortar of the Republic Volume: 2 Development of Financial Politics of Radical Modernity , İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing
Mortar of the Republic Volume: 1 Birth of radical Modernity, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing
To tell the staff and Staffers the Story of a Republic , İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Politics when Indoctrinating Modernity, İmge Bookstore Publishing
History Conscious and The Youth, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
To Think on Education, Turkey Sciences Academy TUBA
City Planning when Indoctrinating Modernity, İmge Bookstore Publishing
To think on Historiography, Dost Bookstore Publishing
AWARDS
Sedat Simavi Social Science Award (1989)
Mustafa Parlar Science Award (1994)