Prof. Dr. İlhan TEKELİ

He was born in Izmir in 1937. Prof. Dr.İlhan Tekeli is a retired professor of City and Regional Planning Department at the Middle East Technical University. He is an honorary member of Turkish Academy of Sciences. Tekeli is one the founders and first chairman of History Foundation of Turkey. He served as a member of High Education Council of Turkey between 2004 and 2008. He has won several social science awards, including the Sedat Simavi Award of Social Science (1989, together with Selim İlkin), Mustafa Parlar Award of Science (1994), Mustafa Parlar High Achievement Award in Education (1999) and TÜBİTAK life long Service award (2006). He has more than 70 books and 640 articles and conference papers in the areas of city and regional planning, planning theory, macro geography, geography of migration and political behaviour, theory and history of local administrations in Turkey, urbanization and urban policy, economic policy, economic history of Turkey, history of cities and space and EU.