İlber Ortaylı
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İlber Ortaylı (b. 1947) is a political scientist at the University of Galatasaray, Istanbul. who came to Turkey when he was 2. [1]
According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture website, Ortaylı attended elementary school and Saint George High School in İstanbul and then Ankara Atatürk High School. He graduated from Ankara University and completed his postgraduate studies at Chicago University; he obtained his doctorate at Ankara University in the Faculty of Political Sciences. His doctoral thesis was Local Administration in the Tanzimat Period.
He has published articles on cities and the history of public administration. In 2001, he collected the Aydın Doğan Foundation Award. He is a member of the Foundation for International Studies, the European-Iran Examining Foundation [2] and the Austrian-Turkish Academy of Sciences [3].