Prof. İnalcık Awarded Honorary Doctorate

Prof. Halil İnalcık has recently received his nineteenth honorary doctorate, presented by Rector İlyas Dökmetaş from the University of Cumhuriyet, Sivas on October 15.
Halil İnalcık founded Bilkent's Department of History 1993  after having retired from the University of Chicago.

His area of specialization is economic and social Ottoman history. Since 1947, Prof. İnalcık has published 28 books and over 350 articles. He is the co-editor of volume five of the History of the Humanity of UNESCO. His book The Ottoman Empire: Classical Age was published in England in 1977 and was translated into seven languages. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, The British Academy, The Serbian Academy, The Albanian Academy, honorary member to Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi and the Royal Asiatic Society, and a corresponding member to the Royal Historical Society.

Professor İnalcık is in the writers' committee of 6 journals such as Archivum Ottomanicum (also founder), Harvard Ukrainian Studies, the East European Quarterly, and the Journal of Ottoman Studies (also founder). He served as the Head of the International Association of Southeast European studies between 1971 and 1974 and the International Association of Economic and Social History of Turkey from its foundation in 1977 to the present.

Prof. İnalcık is one of the two editors of the publishing series, Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, in Leiden, Netherlands. Thus far the series consists of 33 books and is considered the most important publishing activity on Turkish history. He had been a member of the Türk Tarih Kurumu since 1947.