Fikret Yilmaz

Prof. Fikret Yilmaz is the director of Bahçeşehir University's Center for Ottoman Studies (BAU-OTAM). He received his Ph.D. from Ege University in İzmir in 1995. He served at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir until 2012. In Izmir, he also served as an Advisor to the Mayor of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality and to the President of the İzmir Chamber of Commerce, leading various projects. In the 2017-2018 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Prof. Yılmaz has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tarih Vakfı (History Foundation) since 1998 and served as the General Director of the foundation from 2011 to 2013.

Professor Fikret Yılmaz and Ali Yaycioglu are carrying out a project on Ottoman Probate Inventories (muhallefat and tereke) from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which is a sub-division of the Mapping Ottoman Epirus Project.