VITAS of Participants in Turklistan.Org, Editors and editorial board members of Turkistan-Newsletter
Dr. Mehmet Tutuncu, Director/Manager, SOTA
Research centre for Turkestan, Azerbaijan, Crimea, Caucasus and Siberia
P.o. box 9642
2003 LP Haarlem
The Netherlands
e-mail: <mtutuncu@turkiye.net> or <sota@euronet.nl>
Mehmet Tutuncu, 1962 yilinda Karaman'da
dogdu. 1974 yilindan bu yana Hollanda'da yasiyor. 1988 yilinda Amsterdam
Universitesi Ekonomi Fakultesi'nden mezun oldu.
1990 yilindan sonra dagilan Sovyetler'le
ilgilenmeye basladi. 1990 yilinda gittigi Azerbaycan'da yeni gelisen Milli
Hareket'le tanisti. Sovyetler'deki Turk Halklari'ni tanimak amaciyla 1991
yilinda Türkistan ve Azerbaycan Arastirma Merkezi(SOTA)'ni kurdu. Bu
vakfin amaçlari çerçevesinde en genis anlamda Türk Dünyasi'ni
tanitim çalismalarina basladi. Bu merkezin çikardigi (Türkçe-Ingilizce)
BITIG dergisinin genel yayin yönetmenligini sürdürmektedir.
Bu merkez ve faaliyetleri hakkinda genis bilgi merkezin Internet'teki
Türk Dünyasi Home Page'inde bulunabilir: <http://www.turkiye.net/sota/sota.html>
Robert M. Cutler
was trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of Michigan
and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, specializing in interdisciplinary
international affairs of Europe from the Atlantic
to Almaty. He has published widely in professional journals in Europe
and North America as well as in the mass media, and held
research fellowships at Columbia University, the Geneva Graduate
Institute of International Studies, and Moscow University among
others. As of July 1997 he is Research Fellow of the Russian Institute,
Carleton University (Ottawa) and senior consultant to North American
Technology and Trade Corporation. Visit his website at URL
http://www.panix.com/~rmc for further information about his skills
and experience, as well as a large and evergrowing archive of abstracts,
excerpts, and full texts of his written work.
Fields of demonstrated substantive expertise:
Caspian Pipeline Politics and Economics
Natural Resource Development in the Former Soviet Area
Foreign Trade and Commercial Policies
of Post-communist Systems
Central and Eastern Europe and European Integration
European and Eurasian Security and Cooperation
Contact Coordinates:
(Dr.) Robert M. Cutler, Fellow, Russian Institute, Carleton University
Postal Address: Succursale "H", C.P. 518, Montreal, Canada H3G 2L5
Phone: +1(514)939-2769 Fax: +1(514)932-4457
Website: http://www.panix.com/~rmc
Email: rmc@panix.com
Dr. Moshe Gammer
Dept. of middle Eastern and African History
Tel Aviv University
69978 Tel Aviv
ISRAEL
Tel (h): +9723-9219476
Fax (h): +9723 9219475
E-mail : gammer@post.tau.ac.il
I am senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University
Teaching inter alia history of Central Asia. My main research interest
is the Northern Caucasus with an emphasis on Chechnya and Daghestan.
Other fields include Muslims of Russia,Central Asia and the Middle East.
Publications include the book "Muslim Resistance to the Tsar",
Frank Cass, 1994,London, UK.
Peter B. Golden
Professor of History
Rutgers University
Dept. of History
Conklin Hall
175 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
tel. (973) 353-5410 (dept.), 353-1054 (office)
fax : (973) 353-1193
pgolden@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Professor of History at Rutgers University
where I have taught since 1969. I did my graduate work at Ankara Üniversitesi,
Dil ve Tarih-Cografya Fakültesi (where I studied, regrettably
for only one year, with Hasan Eren, the late Saadet Çagatay and Zeynep
Korkmaz). I received my MA and PhD from Columbia University, studying there
with Ihor Sevcenko (Byzantine, Medieval Rus') and Tibor Halasi-Kun (Turkic History
and Philology).My primary fields of interest are the nomadic peoples
of Medieval Central Asia, Turkic philology, the political, economic,
social and cultural interaction of the Turkic peoples with their neighbors.
At Rutgers I offer courses on "The
Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia," "Ottoman History,"
"The History of Islamic Civilization," "Medieval Eastern Europe and the Near East,"
"The History of Iran" on the undergraduate level and courses within
the global history program covering the same areas on the graduate level.
I am the author of the books "Khazar Studies" (Budapest, 1980), 2 vols.,
"An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples" (Wiesbaden, 1992),
a monograph "The Byzantine Greek Elements in the Rasulid Hexaglot"
Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, V (1985), pp.41-166 and am now preparing the complete
edition of the Rasulid Hexaglot, a joint project begun by the
late Tibor Halasi-Kun in collaboration with the late Lajos Ligeti,
Odon Schütz and myself. It consists of two dictionaries compiled
by a 14th century ruler of Yemen (from the Rasuli dynasty of Turkic origin)
containing entries in Arabic, Persian, two dialects of Turkic, a dialect
of Byzantine Greek, a dialect of Western Armenian and a dialect of Western
Mongol. I am also the author of three chapters in the Cambridge History
of Early Inner Asia, ed. D. Sinor (Cambridge, 1990), numerous articles
and chapters in books, entries in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and other reference
works and the editor of the Central Asian section in the American
Historical Association's "Guide to Historical Literature" (Oxford,
1995). This is the first time that the "Guide" has had a section
devoted to Central Asia. In addition to the Hexaglot (which will be completed in
the near future- after many years delay), I am also working on a book
on the Qipchaqs of Medieval Eurasia.
H. B. PAKSOY has earned his doctorate at Oxford
University (England) with a Grant from the Committee of
Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, after studying in the Turkish Republic and taking his B.S. and M.A. degrees in the United States.
To date, Dr. Paksoy published three
volumes:
Over the past decade-and-a-half, his
papers on Central Asian topics have appeared in over two dozen
periodic journals and scholarly collections, published in
eight countries, on the European, Asian, and North American
continents. Dr. Paksoy was a Faculty Associate of the Harvard
University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and taught at
the Departments of History, Central Connecticut State University,
and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Mr. Haluk Savas
Charity work: Involved in regional charity and humanitarian
assistance work since 1985. Keen interest on promotion of
Turkic issues, propagation of high moral family values, protection
and education of orphans and broken families.
Assistance programmes for the needy
and the destitude, practical and moral help towards victims of wars and
civil commotion. Participant on inter-religious tolerance and understanding
between world's major religions. Firmly against religious
extremism and exploitation by any religious denomination. Practicising
Sunni Muslim.
Trustee of a British charity based in
Wales; building a large socio-cultural centre.
EDUCATION, INTERESTS & STATUS Educated in Turkey and England. American
university education on aircraft engineering interrupted, (Northrop
University-Inglewood CA)
Enjoy technical, aeronautical, commercial,
computer subjects.
Sports: Kyokushinkai Karate and pleasure
flying, non smoker & tee-totaller. British citizen, born
in Canakkale, Turkey on the 3rd of March,1957 Married with two young children.
CHRONOLOGY 1975 to 1983 Business Development Manager of Hornsey
Group of Companies, working in Libya.
1983 to 1991 London based construction management
and technical procurement consultant operating in Saudi Arabia,
Libya, Italy, Holland and England.
1991 to 1994 Managing Director and Chief Executive
of Stoneville International Public Limited Company. Business Development
in Central Asia.
1994 to date Business development in Central Asia.
Chief Executive of the Business Engineering Team, consisting
of five professionals in engineering and aircraft operations
disciplines.
Currently developing earthquake resistant
steel framed mass housing construction system for Central Asian
Republics and an Autogyro manufacturing project.
Time divided between business and humanitarian
interests. British representative for a Saudi investment
group.
Vugar Fakhri
Producer, Azeri Department BBC World Service
Born 03.03.69 in Baku, Graduated from Azerbaijani Foreign languages
Institute, served in the Red Army-Konigsberg
area, Special Forces 1987-89. Upon return back to Azerbaijan
was recruted by the Foreign Ministry and served as interpreter for
4 consecutive presidents of that country. Currently employed by the BBC
WS, Bush House, London.
Fevzi ALIMOGLU
Email: alimoglu@cmpe.boun.edu.tr
URL: http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~alimoglu/
I am a PhD student in Computer Engineering
at Bogazici University where I completed my BS and MS degrees as well.
I was born in 1972 Constanta (Kostence) Romania. My family had emmigrated
from Crimea to Dobruja (South East of Romania) in the 19th century.
I've been living in Istanbul since 1984.
Mubeyyin Batu Altan
Education:
1993 to present: Institute of Oriental Studies - Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine. Working towards Ph.D. specializing
in Crimean Tatar history under Academician Omeljan Pritsak.
1990 -1993:
Harvard University - Graduate work in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
1970 -1972: University of Bridgeport - MA Political Science.
1963 -1967: University of Bridgeport
- BA Political Science.
*Co-founded of the Crimea Foundation with two other Crimean Tatar political activists, Mehmet Sevdiyar and Fikret Yurter in New York
(1976),primarily to disseminate crucial information concerning the
Crimean Tatar Human Rights movement. Supplied Chronicle of Current
Events with material (hand carried) secretly received from the
(then) Soviet Union. Was instrumental
in the publication of the *Tashkent Process* (one of the most
detailed documentation of the Crimean Tatar Human Rights Movement)
by the Herzen Foundation.
*Edit and Publish, the Crimean Review,
the only English Language journal solely devoted to the Crimean
Tatar National Movement (since May 18,1986).
*Member of the Crimean Tatar National
Organization (OKND) since 1993.
*Have been actively campaigning for
Crimean Tatar Human Rights all my adult life by presenting the plight
of the Crimean Tatar people at various forums, ie International Conferences,
High School - University conferences. Exhibit works
{(Oil paintings depicting the Deportation (Surgun) } of the late SeitXalil
Osmanov, one of the well known Crimean Tatar artist, to help
the public visualize the Crimean Tatar Tragedy.
Kemal Altintas <kemala@ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr
kemala@ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr
Thu Aug 14 11:48:38 1997
I am a third year student at Bilkent University, the department of
Computer Engineering and Information
Science.
I was born in Ankara in 1977. My ancestors
emigrated from Crimea to Dobruca at about the years 1873. After
living there for about 20 years, they finally came to Anatolia, Yozgat.
I am interested in Crimea related subjects
as an amateur with the help of my dear instructor Dr. Hakan Kirimli.
I am a member of the Kirim Turkleri Kultur ve Yardimlasma Dernegi
Genclik Komisyonu. (youth Branch) I also convert the articles of the journal
"EMEL" to HTML to be published by Dr.Mehmet Tutuncu under
SOTA Homepage.
Idil P. Noyan-Izmirli
Education:
PhD Student at the New School for Social
Research, NYC Department of Sociology
M.A. Sociology, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA Thesis topic: Assimilation of Soviet
Jews into Contemporary American Society; A case study.
M.S. Physics, (ABD) University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC
B.S. Physics, University of Istanbul,
Faculty of Sciences, Vezneciler, Istanbul and University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC
Work experiences:
Academic:
Part Time Instructor (Mathematics and
Sociology), Strayer College, Tacoma Park Campus, MD
Program Assistant at Eastern and Central
European Program, New School for Social Research. NYC
Research Assistant, Sociology Dept.
at New School for Social Research, NYC
Teaching Assistanship, Department of
Mathematics, George Mason University Fairfax, VA
Teaching Assistanship, Dept. of Physics,
USC, Columbia, SC.
Part-Time Physics Faculty, Midlands
Technical College, Columbia, SC
Guest Leecturer, Norwich University
Russian School, Nortfield, VT
Non-Academic: Free lance translator/interpreter for
the Moscow Circus, Bulgarian Gymnastic Federation, Red Cross, and some other
Washington based Universities, and companies.
Information Resource Management assistant
at American Counsel on Education. Washington DC Worked on special projects such as Fellows
program, Office of Leadership Development, Office of Women in Higher
Education, and Office of Minorities in Higher Education
Fund Raiser, for Public Interest Communication
Inc., Falls Church, VA Worked as a fund-raiser for variety
of organizations including PBS Public television, Green Peace, PETA, Amnesty
International, ACLU, Planned parenthood, and several environmental
issues.
Program Assistant, International Student
Office, USC, Columbia, SC
Assistant Coordinator, International
Student Services GMU, Fairfax, VA
Features Editor, George Mason University student news paper ``Broadside''
Fairfax, VA
Radio Journalist/Program Assistant (4 summers in a row) for WNUB (Norwich
University Russian School Radio), Nortfield,
VT
Resident Advisor (4 summers in a row) Norwich university Russian School,
Northfield, VT
Assistant to the Director (3 summers in a row) of Norwich University Russian
School Theater, Nortfield, VT
Activities:
First soprano for George Mason Symphonic
Choir
First soprano for Washington Slavic
Music Society
Other:
President of International Student Association,
GMU, Fairfax, VA
President of the Slavic Club, GMU, Fairfax,
VA
President of the Turkish Club, GMU,
Fairfax, VA
Co-President of the Multi-cultural
core committee, GMU, Fairfax, VA
Co-President of Student Government Program
Board, GMU, Fairfax, VA
Personal traits: Vegeterian, loves
nature and animals, adores art, including paintings, poetry, music, film and theater,
travel, history and politics, progressive thought, and inteligent
people.
Goal in life: To see Crimean Tatars
back in their homeland as citizens in freedom and democracy.
Born on 8th of June, 1963 in Istanbul,
Turkey. Daughter of Ismail Noyan (one of the founders of the Crimean National
Center in Istanbul) and Nadya Noyan.
1. H.M.Hubey
2.
3. Associate Professor of Computer Science
4. Montclair State University, NJ
5. http://www.csam.montclair.edu/Faculty/Hubey.html
hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu
hubeyh@alpha.montclair.edu
6. BS- Mech. Eng. NJIT, 1971
MS- Industrial Eng, NJIT, 1979
PhD- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, UNH, 1983
MS- Computer Science, Stevens Inst.
of Tech, 1987
7. *Listed in Who's Who of Professionals,1997
Who's Who (USA)
*Listed in The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership,1997
American Biographical Institute
*Listed in The International Who's Who of Intellectuals,1998
The International Biographical Institute (Cambridge, UK)
Tau Beta Pi - National Eng. Honor Society
Pi Tau Sigma - National Mech. Eng.
Honor Society
8. Publications
a) Math. and Comp. Linguistics, 1984, Mir Domu Tvoemu,Moscow
b) The Diagonal Infinity, 1997-98, World Scientific, Singapore
c) Theoretical Economics, (in progress)
d) Topology of Thought; laws of biological and societal evolution,(in
progress)
Various papers in conferences, journals, conference proceedings, and
books in: elecromagnetics, biology, psychology, epistemology, computer
science, economics, fuzzy logic, software engineering, artificial
intelligence, history, and philosophy in various stages of completion
ranging from published to submitted.
9. Served on various task forces for NJIN (NJ Intercampus Network)
such as NTRF (network requirements task force), and EATF (educational
activities task force), and their subcommittees
for years.
Also served on various civic, and local(municipal) committees.
10. Born in 1948 in a refugee camp in Klagenfurt, Austria, from
parents who were refugees from the USSR (North Caucasus). Lived in
Turkey until 1960, and in the USA since
then.
1. Uli SCHAMILOGLU
2. I teach courses through the Central Asian Studies Program at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in the
following fields:
"The Name of the Pechenegs in Ibn Hayyan's Al-muqtabas", Journal of Turkish Studies 8 (1984).
I supervise undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of departments working in these fields.
3. Associate Professor of Central
Asian Studies Dept. of Slavic Languages
4. Lecturer & Assistant Professor,
Indiana University, 1983-1989 Assistant Professor & Associate
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989--
5. How to reach (i.e. tel #, email address etc optional)
Dept. of Slavic Languages
1452 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 USA
608/262-7141 (office), 608/262-3498(secretary),608/265-2814(fax)
E-mail: uschamil@macc.wisc.edu
Residence telephone: 608/243-8300, fax *51
6. B.A., Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia College, 1979 M.A., History, Columbia University
,
1980 M.Phil., History, Columbia University,
1982 Ph.D., History, Columbia University,
1986
additional study abroad: Alliance Francaise, Paris, France,
Summer 1976 Goethe-Institut, Freiburg i.Br.,
West Germany, Summer 1977 Ma`had ta`lim li-l-acanib al-lugha
l-`arabiya, Damascus, Syria, Summer 1978 Hungary, Summer 1979 Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen,
Hungary, Summer 1982 Dept. of Altaistics, Attila
Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary, Fall 1982
7. Taraknath Das Prize in Oriental
Studies, Columbia College (1979)
Research Fellowship for Recent
Recipients of the Ph.D., American Council of Learned Societies (1989-90)
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African or Asian History, American Historical
Association (1989)
Fellowship for University Teachers,
National Endowment for the Humanities (1994-95)
8. Articles:
"The Qaraci Beys of the Later Golden Horde: Notes on the Organization of the Mongol World Empire", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 4 (1984).
"The Tatar Public Center and Current Tatar Concerns", Report on the USSR 1:51 (December 22, 1989).
"The Formation of a Tatar Historical Consciousness: Sihabaddin Marcani and The Image of the Golden
Horde", Central Asian Survey 9:2 (1990).
"The End of Volga Bulgarian", Varia Eurasiatica. Festschrift fur Professor Andras Rona-Tas (Szeged, 1991).
"The Umdet ul-ahbar and the Turkic Sources of the Golden Horde and the Later Golden Horde", Central Asian Monuments (Istanbul, 1992).
"Whither Tatarstan?", Perspectives on Change 1:3 (June 5, 1992).
"Preliminary Remarks on the Role of Disease in the History of the Golden Horde", Central Asian Survey 12:4 (1993).
"Beautes du melange", Samarcande, 1400-1500. La cite-oasis de Tamerlan: coeur d'un Empire et d'une Renaissance (Paris, 1995).
Translation: Utkir Hashimov, "Life in
a Dream", Icarus 16: End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of the Former
Soviet Union (Winter 1995).
Book: The Golden Horde: Economy, Society,
and Civilization in Western Eurasia, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries
(in press)
(Other projects in progress
relating to the medieval history of the Turkic peoples; national ideologies
among the Turkic peoples; and Turkic linguistics)
9. Public/Community Service (volunteer efforts etc) General Editor, Turko-Tatar Press (with
Kemal Silay, Indiana University) Board of Directors, American Association
of Teachers of Turkic Languages Board of Directors, Mongolia Society Coordinator, annual Workshop on Central Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Coordinator, Workshop on the Proficiency-based Teaching of Central Asian Langauges Consultant to the Office of Language Services, US Department of State
10. I was born on May 2, 1958 in New York City. I am of Kazan Tatar background (my father
was Kazan Tatar from Bashqortostan, and my mother was Mishar). I am married to Aylin Abayhan, who is
of Karachay background. We have one daughter, Yasmin Faile Pakize
Schamiloglu, born in 1996.
Sukru Bogut
sbogut@acadiacom.net
BS in Geological Engineering, Hacettepe
University, Turkey (1978) MS in Petroleum Engineering, University
of Tulsa, OK (1981)
Experienced in reservoir, production
engineering, management and business development. Worked for Schlumberger
in well testing, part owned Perfco Wireline in well testing
and cased hole operation and currently Vice President for Drilling
Measurements, Inc. Involved in emerging world petroleum markets
since 1992. Directed oil field concession activities in Indonesia,
Kazakstan and Azerbaijan.
Born in 1956 in Trabzon, Turkey. Residing
in the USA since 1978, Turkish and USA citizenships. Married
with two children.