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Assoc. Prof. Musa Yavuz ALPTEKİN (Department of Sociology, Karadeniz Technical University)
He was born in 1976. His family is originally from Trabzon/Çaykara county, Karaçam (Yukarı Ögene) Village. He received his primary and high school education in Bayburt, and his university education in Istanbul and Istanbul University. He completed his Master's (2000) and PhD (2006) studies in the Department of Sociology at the Social Sciences Institute of the same university, Department of Social Structure-Social Change.
In 2006, he started to teach Sociology at Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Four years later, he transferred to the Faculty of Letters, Department of Sociology of the same University. At this stage, he went to the USA as a visiting researcher in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, with the Postdoctoral Research Scholarship of the Higher Education Institution, to conduct research on the ethnic composition, immigration and integration of America, and he also studied the Meskhetian Turks in Denver. He carried out a seven-month theoretical and field study involving Upon his return to Turkey at the end of 2010, he was appointed as the head of the Sociology department and for four and a half years following this date (February 2016), he carried out the basic establishment processes of the department, such as the formation of the academic staff and the approval of the undergraduate and graduate student admission files by HCI (High Commission Institute).
In the period of July-September 2013, with a six (6)-month overseas research scholarship provided by Karadeniz Technical University and for three months during the summer break, as a visiting researcher, International Islamic University, Department of Sociology, in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He carried out a theoretical and ethnographic study in During this time, he had the opportunity to examine the tension between the Nation-State and Ethnic differences and possible solutions on Malaysia, theoretically, ethnographically and practically.
Between March 4 and July 31, 2017, he received a TÜBİTAK Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship for five months at the University of Birmingham in England, one of the world's leading experts in his field, a lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Political Scientist Prof. Dr. He went to this university with the invitation of Stefan Wolff and Prof. Under the supervision of Wolff, he conducted a theoretical study on the subject of "Kurds in Turkey and the Middle East".
In October 2021, again with TÜBİTAK's post-doctoral research scholarship abroad, for 8 months (he paid the remaining time for a year in total), the director of the Center for Turkish Studies, an institution of Duisburg-Essen University, He went to Germany at the invitation of Professor Hacı Halil Uslucan. Under the consultancy of Uslucan, he conducted a quantitative and qualitative diaspora study titled "The Formation of the Turkish Diaspora in Germany", whose data were collected from 300 people, members and volunteers of 52 Turkish associations in Duisburg and Essen.
On August 6, 2023, with an unpaid research assignment, he went to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to conduct social structure, culture, folklore and ethnography studies. His work here continues.
Focusing on the sub-disciplines of Sociology, Urban Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology and Ethnic Sociology, the author's book, City and Society, consists of his doctoral thesis, as well as a monograph in Malaysia and a monograph in which he examines the Contracting profession in Trabzon, and geo-political in which he examines the concept of Patriotism in Trabzon. There are five copyrighted works including monographs and 17 edition book works that he edited. Alptekin is also the editor of HABITUS Journal of Sociology, as well as TR Indexed IMGELEM Journal, and the founding president of the BİLGİTOY Association, the umbrella organization that publishes these journals. Published in various national and international journals, more than 70 English in the context of Global urbanization trends, Urban Transformation, Capitalism, ethnic structure of the Middle East, social integration process in the European Union, nationalism, nation building, migration, diaspora, nation state and ethnic differences. and Turkish articles, book chapters and papers. He still continues his academic activities in the Department of Sociology at KTU and gives undergraduate and graduate courses focused on Political Sociology.
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Professor Taner TATAR (İnönü Univ. Malatya)
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Assoc. Prof. Göknur EGE (Ege Univ. Izmir)
Proffessor Zafer DURDU (Muğla Univ. Muğla)
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Assist. Prof.Sheikh Idrees MUJTEBA (Aligarh Muslim Univ. INDIA)
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Assist. Prof. Elif Başak AKSOY (Hacettepe University, Ankara)
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Assist. Prof. Marjan NIKOLOV (President of CEA, MACEDONIA)
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Assist. Prof. Hamdi Ali SERDAR (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize)
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Assist. Prof. Eda Havva TAN METREŞ (Akdeniz Univ. Antalya)
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Assoc. Prof. Ali TEKİN (Trabzon University, TRABZON)
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Assist. Prof. Ferhat Çağrı ARAS (Karadeniz Technical University)
Assist. Prof. Serap YOLCU YAVUZ (Trakya Univ. Edirne)
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Prof. Todor Georgiev GALUNOV (University of VeliKo Tarnova, BULGARIA)
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Assist. Prof. Orkhan VALİYEV (Khazar University, Bakü / AZERBAYCAN)
Assist. Prof. Oğuzhan ERDOĞAN (Mehmet Akif Ersoy Univ. BURDUR)
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History of Republic of Turkey Field Editors
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Assist. Prof. Hayrünisa ALP (İstanbul Univ. İSTANBUL)
Assist. Prof. Okan CEYLAN (Ege Univ. İZMİR)
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Prof. Korkut TUNA (İst. Ticaret Üniv.)
Prof. Mustafa E. ERKAL (İst. Üniv.)
Prof. Shabanov Djumali Kazimovich (University of Oriental Studies, Dean of Faculty of Turkic Studies, Tashkent / UZBEKISTAN)
Prof. Amina SILJAK-JESENKOVIC (Oriental Studies Institute, Bosnia Herzegovina)
Prof. Valeriy KHAN (University of World Economy and Diplomacy-Uzbekistan)
Prof. Garifullin Vasil ZAGITOVICH (Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan)
Prof. Todor Georgiev GALUNOV (University of VeliKo Tarnova, BULGARIA)
Prof. Madhu KUSHWAHA (Banaras Hindu University, INDIA)
Prof. Mehmet F. GEZGİN (Beykent Üniv.)
Prof. Ruza KARLOVIC (Croatian Police College-Vice Dean, Croatia)
Prof. Veysel BOZKURT (İstanbul Üniv. İstanbul)
Prof. Nedzma DZANANOVIC (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina)
Prof. Musa TAŞDELEN (Sakarya Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Bülent BAYRAM (Ahmed Yesevi University, Turkistan / KAKAKıSTAN)
Prof. Mukimjon KIRGIZBOEV (International Journalism and Mass Communication University, Department of Int. Rel. UZBEKISTAN).
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Prof. Nailya K. Shamsuddinova (Center for the Study of Human Capital-Bashkortostan)
Prof. Meki LOBJANIDZE (Open University, Georgia)
Prof. Muhammed Abdulbaki İBRAHİM (Selahaddin Üniversity, IRAQ)
Prof. Emilia ALAVERDOV (Georgian Technical University, GEORGIA)
Assoc. Prof. Rakhimov Sadriddin AKRAMOVICH (International Journalism and Mass Communication University, Department of Int. Rel. UZBEKISTAN).
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Assoc. Prof. Olena BORDILOVSKA (National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of UKRAINE)
Assoc. Prof. Aliye F. MATARACİ (International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina)
Assist. Prof. Danijela TEŠIĆ RADOVANOVIĆ (University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Art History. SERBIA)
Assoc. Prof. Flavia GHANCEA (Ovidius University, Romania)
Assoc. Prof. M. Yavuz ALPTEKİN (Karadeniz Teknik Üniv.)
Assoc. Prof. Abbas Varij KAZEMI (Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Iran)
Assoc. Prof. Joanna KUROWKA-PYSZ (WSB University, Poland)
Assoc. Prof. Aylin ÇANKAYA (University of Manisa Celal Bayar, Manisa)
Assoc. Prof. Sajjad SATTARI (Tehran University, Iran)
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Assoc. Prof. Rohollah ESLAMI (Firdevs University, IRAN)
Assoc. Prof. Fouad BENDFILLAH (Montreal Univ. CANADA)
Assoc. Prof. Bushra BIBI (University of Gujrat, PAKISTAN)
Assoc. Prof. Sudipta MUKHERJEE (Rayat Bahra University, INDIA)
Assoc. Prof. Edita BEKTESHI (University Isa Boletini in Mitrovica, Republic of KOSOVO).
Dr. Otabek Yuldashev ABDUGAFFAROVICH (Int. Journalism and Mass Communication University, Dean of the Faculty of Int. Relations and Social and Political Sciences, UZBEKISTAN)
Dr. Aripov Maxamadjon PULATBAYEVICH (Toshkent State Eastern Languages University, Head of Turkish Filology Department, Tashkent / UZBEKISTAN)
Dr. Çetin YILDIZ (University of Oriental Studies, Tashkent / UZBEKISTAN)
Dr. Adkham KADIRJANOV (University of Oriental Studies, Tashkent / UZBEKISTAN)
Dr. Orkhan VALİYEV (Khazar University, Baku / AZERBAİCAN)
Dr. Ferhat Çağrı ARAS (Karadeniz Technical University)
Dr. Saira AQUIL (Quaid-i Azam University, PAKİSTAN)
Dr. Shazia Farooq FAZLI (Aligarh Muslim University, INDIA)
Dr. Apostolia PANGE (Hellenic Open University, GREECE)
Dr. Zlatka Zdravkova VANGELOVA (University of National and World Economy, BULGARIA)
Dr. Sarjoo PATEL (The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, INDIA)
Dr. Qaisar Khalid MAHMOOD (International Islamic University Islamabad, PAKISTAN)
Dr. Snježana STANIŠIĆ (University of Sinergia, BOSNIA HERSEGOVİNA)
Dr. Galina BERJOZKINA (City Unity College Nicosia, CYPRUS)
Dr. Zeynep TEKİN BABUÇ (Osmaniye Korkut Ata Universityi, Osmaniye)
Dr. Esen Burcu ÖZCAN (Recep Tayyib Erdoğan University, Rize)
Dr. Iftikhar YASİN (Lahor Univ. PAKİSTAN)
Dr. Sheikh Idrees MUJTEBA (Aligarh Muslim Univ. INDIA)
Dr. Emine SÜLÜN (Near East Univ. CYPRUS)
Dr. Katerina MARINAKI (University of Macedonia, GREECE)
Dr. Alina ROMANOVSKA (Daugavpils University, LATVIA)
Dr. Damir KAPIDZIC (Sarajevo University, BOSNIA)
Dr. Vladimir STERPU, (Moldova State University, MOLDOVA)
Dr. P. J. Mathew MARTIN, (University of Mumbai, INDIA)
Dr. Immaculada COLOMINA (Carlos University, Madrid/SPAIN)
Dr. Noemia Bessa VILELA (University of Portucalense, PORTUGAL)
Dr. Ghodsi BAYAT, (Allameh Tabatabai' University, IRAN)
Dr. Serdal FİDAN (Karadeniz Teknik Üniv.)
Dr. Emir SULJAGIC (International University of Sarajevo, BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA)
Dr. Leyla AYDEMİR (Karadeniz Teknik Üniv.)
Dr. Savaş TAŞ (Demokrasi Üniversitesi)
Dr. Hazım Burhan MUSTAFA (Selahaddin University, IRAQ)
Dr. Selim KARYELİOĞLU (Karadeniz Teknik Üniv.)
Dr. Elif BAŞ (Celal Bayar Üniv. MANİSA)
Dr. Ersoy Özmen ALKAN (Karadeniz Technical Univ.)
Azat MESHELOVA (El Farabi Kazak National University, KAZAKISTAN)
Veysel USTA (Karadeniz Teknik Univ.)
Teymur GASIMLI (Baku State University, Azerbijan)
Mevlüt KAYA (Giresun Univ.)
Elif SAÇINTI (Naşantası University)
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Mustafa E. ERKAL (İstanbul Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Korkut TUNA (İstanbul Ticaret Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Cumali ŞABANOV (Şarkşinaslık Üniversitesi, Tashkent / UZBEKISTAN)
Prof. Dr. Enver ÖZKALP (Anadolu Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Hikmet ÖKSÜZ (Karadeniz Teknik Üniv.
Prof. Dr. Mevhibe COŞAR (Karadeniz Teknik Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. H. Musa TAŞDELEN (Sakarya Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Edibe SÖZEN (Hasan Kalyoncu Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Yümni SEZEN (Marmara Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Zeki ARSLANTÜRK (Marmara Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fikret GEZGİN (Beykent Üniv.)
Prof. Dr. Mustafa DELİCAN (İstanbul Üniv.)
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