Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Mardin Artuklu Universitesi, Diyarbakir Yolu 5. KM
Kampus Yerleskesi/ Edebiyat Fakultesi/ Tarih Bolum
Mardin
Turkey
ABOUT
Caner Yelbasi is an Assistant Professor at the Mardin Artuklu University. He holds a PhD degree from the Department of History in SOAS, University of London. The title of his thesis is 'Civil War, Violence and Nationality from Empire to Nation State: The Circassians in Turkey (1918-1938).' In his thesis, he focused on the political and paramilitary activities of the Circassian community in Turkey in the very late Ottoman and early Republican periods. His research interests are Circassian Studies, Late Ottoman Period, Nation and Nation State ideology, Para-militarism, and Early Turkish Republican Period.
Caner Yelbasi also completed his MA on the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in SOAS, University of London in 2012. In his master thesis, he compared treatments of a non-Turkish Muslim group, namely the Circassians, in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period by the state authority in 1908-1950 periods.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Middle East/Near East Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Caucasus
Islamic World
Turkey
Specialties
Late Ottoman Period
Early Turkish Republican Period
World War One
Languages
English (fluent)
Russian (intermediate)
Turkish (native)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| History
| SOAS, University of London
MA
| 2012
| Languages and Cultures
| SOAS, University of London
BA
| 2008
| History
| Osmangazi University
Abstracts
Civil War at the end of the Empire; Circassian Opposition to the Nationalists of Ankara in 1920
