Halil Berktay
Halil Berktay | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 27, 1947 |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA, MA) Birmingham University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Turkish history |
| Institutions | Ibn Haldun University Sabancı University Ankara University Middle East Technical University Harvard University |
Halil Berktay (born August 27, 1947) is a Turkish historian[1][2] at Ibn Haldun University. He has worked as a columnist for the daily newspaper Taraf[3] and is one of the first Turkish historians to acknowledge the Armenian genocide as a historical fact.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Berktay was born in İzmir into an intellectual Turkish communist family. Both of his parents were Cretan Turks. His father, Erdoğan Berktay, was a member of the old clandestine Communist Party of Turkey. As a result of this influence, Halil Berktay remained a Maoist for two decades before he became "an independent left-intellectual".[4]
After graduating from Robert College in 1964, Berktay studied economics at Yale University receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Master of Arts in 1969.[5] He went on to earn a PhD from Birmingham University in 1990.[5] He worked as lecturer at Ankara University from 1969 to 1971 and from 1978 to 1983.[5] He took part in the founding of the Yale chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society.[4]
Between 1992 and 1997, he taught at both the Middle East Technical University History Department and Boğaziçi University.[6] He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 1997, and taught at Sabancı University before returning to Harvard in 2006. He is currently a professor at Ibn Haldun University, where he is also the head of the History Department.[7]
Berktay's research areas are the history and historiography of Turkish nationalism in the 20th century. He studies social and economic history (including that of Europe, especially medieval history) from a comparative perspective. He has also written on the construction of Turkish national memory.[5]
After Taner Akçam, Berktay was one of the first Turkish historians to acknowledge the Armenian genocide.[8][9] In September 2005, Berktay and fellow historians, including Murat Belge, Edhem Eldem and Selim Deringil, convened at an academic conference to discuss the fall of the Ottoman Empire.[10][11]
Partial bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Kabileden Feodalizme, Kaynak Yayınları, 1983
- Cumhuriyet İdeolojisi ve Fuad Köprülü, Kaynak Yayınları, 1983
- Bir Dönem Kapanırken, Pencere Yayınları, 1991
- New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History (eds. Halil Berktay and Suraiya Faroqhi), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
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- ^ Okuma Notları Archived 2008-09-13 at the Wayback Machine, Taraf.
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (talk given at the "Armenians and the Left" symposium on March 31, 2007)
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitæ, Sabancı University.
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- ^ Conferences, personal Web site, Sabancı University.
- ^ Didem Türkoğlu, Challenging the National History--Competing discourses about a Conference Archived 2022-12-13 at the Wayback Machine, Submitted to Central European University Nationalism Studies Program In Partial Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Budapest, Hungary, 2006
External links
[edit | edit source]- Halil Berktay recounts an anecdote about a time when the subject of the Armenian genocide came up at a dinner party in Turkey on YouTube.
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- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from İzmir
- 20th-century Turkish historians
- Turkish atheists
- Academic staff of Sabancı University
- Cretan Turks
- Robert College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Taraf people
- Alumni of the University of Birmingham
- Historians of Turkey
- Academic staff of İbn Haldun Üniversitesi
- Turkish former Sunni Muslims
- 21st-century Turkish historians
- Academic staff of Middle East Technical University