Prof. Dr. M. Şükrü HANİOĞLU ( Journalist-Writer, Turkey )

Şükrü Hanioğlu is the Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs and Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Istanbul University in 1976 and 1981, respectively, and taught courses at Istanbul, Bosphorus, Michigan (Ann Arbor) Universities, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and University of Chicago before joining Princeton faculty.

Professor Hanioğlu is a scholar of late Ottoman and Modern Turkey in all its historical, modern and global perspectives.  His major publications include Bir Siyasal Düşünür Olarak Doktor Abdullah Cevdet ve Dönemi (Istanbul, 1981);  Bir Siyasal Örgüt Olarak Osmanlı İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti (Istanbul, 1986); Kendi Mektublarında Enver Paşa (Istanbul, 1989); The Young Turks in Opposition (Oxford, 1995); Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908 (Oxford, 2001).; Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Zihniyet, Siyaset ve Tarih (Istanbul, 2006);  A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton, 2008); and Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton, 2011).