İlber Ortaylı

  • Born Date

    He was born on May 21, 1947 in Bregenz, Austria, to a Crimean Tatar family.
  • Education

    He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History in 1970. Here he became a student of Şerif Mardin, Halil İnalcık, Mümtaz Soysal, Seha Meray, İlhan Tekeli, Mübeccel Kıray. Also among his classmates were Zafer Toprak, Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay and Ümit Arslan.
  • marriage

    marriage
    In 1981, Mersin Senator Dr. He married Talip Özdolay's daughter Ayşe Özdolay and had a daughter named Tuna from this marriage. divorced in 1999
  • Back to Turkey

    Returning to Turkey in 1989, he became a professor and between 1989-2002 he was the head of the Department of Administrative History of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University.
  • awards

    prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı,studies in the field of history since the early 1970s, his articles and books, his efforts to disseminate the science of history, his activities to endear history to Turkish people of all ages, his scientific activities abroad and Turkish historiography in the international arena. Considering that he is an important name, he was deemed worthy of the 2001 Aydın Doğan Award in the field of history.
  • first teaching

    He transferred to Galatasaray University in 2002 and to Bilkent University as a guest lecturer two years later.
  • awards

    awards
    2006 yılında İtalya'da Lazio bölge yönetiminin başlattığı ve her yıl devam etmesi öngörülen Akdeniz Festivali'nde toplumsal ve kültürel tarih alanındaki "Avrupa ile Akdeniz arasında Lazio" ödülünün Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı'ya verilmesi uygun görülmüştür
  • awards

    awards
    Ortaylı from Turkey was awarded the Pushkin Medal, which was awarded by Russia in 2007, with the signature of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to people who spread the Russian language and cultural heritage and bring countries and peoples closer to each other.
  • awards

    awards
    In 2017, he was deemed worthy of the Presidential Culture and Art Grand Prize.