She was born in Ankara in 1976. In 2000, she graduated from Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Turkish Language and Literature. She completed her master’s degree in 2005 at Gazi University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, with a thesis titled “Tanzimat Sonrası Edebiyat Teorileri ve Şahabettin Süleyman’ın Sanat-ı Tahrir ve Edebiyatı” (Post-Tanzimat Literary Theories and Şahabettin Süleyman’s The Art of Writing and Literature). In 2018, she earned her PhD from Atatürk University, Institute of Turkish Studies, Department of Modern Turkish Literature. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Ankara as a Literary Circle and Subject in Turkish Literature during the Atatürk Era (1920–1938)”.

Dr. Haydar TÜRK
Haydar Türk was born in 1976 in Sivas, Türkiye. He completed his secondary education at Sivas Gazi High School in 1992. After pursuing language education and university preparatory studies in Berlin, he graduated from the Berlin University of Technology (Technische Universität Berlin) in 2005, earning both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Architecture, and received the title of Dipl.-Ing. Architect.
In 2016, he obtained a second bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Anadolu University. He began his doctoral studies in the Department of Architecture at Selçuk University, specializing in Building Science (Bina Bilgisi), and completed his Ph.D. at Konya Technical University in 2022.
Dr. Türk started his professional career at the Directorate of Zoning and Urban Planning of Sivas Municipality in 2011, where he has been serving as the Director since 2017.
He is married and has two children. Dr. Haydar Türk is fluent in German and English.

Sezai Balci, was born in Tirebolu, Giresun in 1976. He completed the primary and secondary school education in Giresun. Balcı, graduated from History department at Ankara University and he holds a master and a PH.D. from Ankara University, Social Sciences Institute, Contemporary History Departmant. His master dissertation was titled as ‘’İkdam Newspaper during Second Legitimacy Period (1908-1909)’’ and his PH.D. dissertation was titled as ‘’The Work of Interpreting at Ottoman Empire and Babıali Interpreting Room (2007)’’. Since 2007, he has been teaching at History department at Giresun University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has been carrying on his studies on modernization of Turks, Ottoman diplomacy, the history of Turkish education and minorities. He is the author of books Giresun Greeks and Non-Muslim Mayor of Kerasounta: Captain Yorgi Konstantinidi Pasha (The original name is Giresun Rumları ve Gayrimüslim Bir Belediye Başkanı: Kaptan Yorgi Konstantinidi Paşa, 2. Edition Libra Bookstore, İstanbul 2012), Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy (The original name is Osmanlı Bürokrasisinde Yahudiler with Ahmet Yadi, Libra Bookstore, İstanbul 2013),Babıali Interpreting Room (The original name is Babıali Tercüme Odası, Libra Bookstore, İstanbul, 2013) and Disabled and Disabled People Education in the Ottoman Empire: School for Deaf Dumb and Blind (The original name is Osmanlı Devleti’nde Engelliler ve Engelli Eğitimi: Sağır Dilsiz ve Körler Mektebi, Libra Bookstore, İstanbul 2013). 

Prof. Dr. Ramazan SEVER was born in 1968 in the Yeşilyurt district of Malatya. He completed his primary education in Malatya, his secondary education in Muğla, and his higher education in 1994 at Erzurum Atatürk University, Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education (KKFE), Department of Geography Education. Sever completed his master’s degree in 1996 and his doctorate in 2001, after which he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the same year.

In 2006, with his study titled Energy Investment Projects in the Çoruh Basin and Their Environmental Impacts and his other scholarly works, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Human Geography. In 2011, he received the title of Professor with his major work Human and Economic Geography of the Karlıova District.

After serving for 17 years at Atatürk University KKFE, he worked for approximately 10 years as a faculty member in the Department of Primary Education at Giresun University Faculty of Education, where he also held various administrative positions across different units of the university. Sever is currently serving in the Department of Primary Education within the Faculty of Education at İnönü University.

Sever has numerous published works, and his main fields of study and research include geography education, geographic literacy, primary and social studies education, instructional technologies and material development, environmental issues and environmental education, disasters and disaster management, among others.

Sanatçı/ Akademisyen 2004 yılında Atatürk Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Geleneksel Türk Sanatları bölümünü kazandı. 7 Temmuz -7 Ekim 2007 tarihleri arasında İtalya/Floransa Palozzo Spınellı L’arte E Il Restouro Assocıazıone No Profit Enstitüsünde çizim ve decorasyon dersleri aldı. 2008 yılında tezhip anasanat dalında lisans öğrenimini tamamlayarak aynı yıl Atatürk Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Geleneksel Türk Sanatları Bölümünde yüksek lisansa başladı. 2013 yılında Gazi Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü, Geleneksel Türk Sanatları bölümünde Sanatta Yeterlik programına yerleşerek 2017 yılında tamamladı. 2013-2018 yılları arasında Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Geleneksel Türk Sanatları Bölümünde Öğr. Gör. ve Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak görev yaptı. 2019 yılından bu yana İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Geleneksel Türk Sanatları Bölümünde görev yapan sanatçı halen İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Geleneksel Türk Sanatları bölümünde Doç. Dr.  olarak çalışmalarına devam etmektedir.

Prof. Dr. H. Nurgül Begiç was born in Ankara, Türkiye, . She graduated from Gazi University, Faculty of Vocational Education, Department of Handicrafts in 1986 and began her academic career at Selçuk University in 1994.
Recognized as the first woman to receive a formal master’s license in Turkish felt-making, she has conducted extensive field research on the tradition of felt art in Anatolia.
Her doctoral dissertation, “Transformation in Tradition: The Art of Felt-Making,” documented the evolution of felt-making as an element of Turkish cultural heritage.
Her books “The Art of Turkish Felt-Making” and “From Past to Present: Konya Felt-Making” are key references in the field.
She has represented Turkish traditional arts in numerous EU projects, exhibitions, and international festivals.
Prof. Begiç currently serves as Chair of the Department of Traditional Turkish Arts at İzmir Democracy University Faculty of Fine Arts.

İlk ve orta öğretimini Gaziantep’de Yüksek öğrenimini ise (1995) Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde tamamladı. (1998) Yüksek Lisans çalışmasını aynı bölümde Yeni Türk Edebiyatı alanında; doktora eğitimini ise (2010) Dicle Üniversitesi Ziya Gökalp Eğitim Fakültesinde Türk Edebiyatı Eğitimi alanında yaptı. Aynı Yıl Yardımcı Doçent unvanlını aldı. 2011-2012 yıllarında Arizona Üniversitesinde (ABD) çocuk edebiyatı alanında post doktora çalışmasında bulundu. 2018’de Doçent, 2024’de Profesörlük unvanını aldı. Üniversitelerde birçok idari görevlerde bulunan Kaya halen Gaziantep Üniversitesi Gaziantep Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe ve Sosyal Bilimler Bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. 

Selim Hilmi Özkan is Professor of History at Yildiz Technical University. He is currently working on Ottoman diplomacy and Ottoman foreign policy. His most recent publications include “Reasons for Migration of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire before 1915”, African and Asian Studies, 19, 3, (2020), 282-305; and “Arms Smuggling across Ottoman Borders in the Second Half of the 19th Century” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18, 3, (2016), 297-312. He is currently working on a book project: Migrations and Migration Routes from Cebel-i Lebanon to the United States of America, End of the Nineteenth Century. Also, he is included in a researcher working group on "COST Action CA18129 "Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)" and "COST Action CA18140, People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean(1492-1923)."

I held postdoctoral positions at Arizona State University, AZ, USA, from 2023-2024; at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, from 2014-2015; and at the University of Wisconsin in 2012. My research has focused on Ottoman diplomacy, Ottoman foreign policy, and history education.

Prof. Dr. Vüsale Musalı - 1981 Bakü doğumlu. 1997-2001 yıllarında Bakü Devlet Üniversitesinde Lisans, 2001-2004 yıllarında aynı üniversitede Yüksek Lisans Eğitimi aldı. 2006 senesinde "XV-XVII. Yüzyıl Türk Tezkireciliği" konusunda doktora tezini savundu.
2001 yılında Azerbaycan Milli Bilimler Akademisi Elyazmaları Enstitüsünde araştırma görevlisi olarak işe başladı. 2004-2011 yılları arasında Bakü Devlet Üniversitesinde Yard. Doç. Dr., 2012-2014 yılları arasında Doçent olarak görev yapmıştır.
2009-2014 yılları arasında AMEA Elyazmaları Enstitüsü "Metinlerin Yayına Hazırlanması" bölümünde çalışmıştır. 2014 yılı itibariyle T.C. Kastamonu Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat fakültesi Çağdaş Türk lehçeleri ve Edebiyatları bölümünde öğretim üyesidir.
2012 yılında Doçent, 2017 yılında Profesör oldu.
Türk Tezkireciliği, Azerbaycan Edebiyatı, Osmanlı - Azerbaycan Edebi İlişkileri, Oryantalizm konusunda araştırmalar yapmaktadır.
vusalemusali@kastamonu.edu.tr
tezkireshinas@gmail.com