Prof. AHMET KANKAL

PROF. DR. AHMET KANKAL

 

He was born in 1963 in Kırıkkale/Yahşihan. He completed his primary and secondary education in Yahşihan and high school education in Kırıkkale. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Medieval History in 1985. In 1986, he was appointed as a Research Assistant at Dicle University and his position was transferred to Ankara University Social Sciences Institute. He completed his master's degree in 1987 and his doctorate in 1993 at the same institute.

In 1994, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Dicle University Faculty of Education and became the Head of the Department of Classroom Teaching. In 1999, he received the title of "Associate Professor" in the Department of Modern History. In 2008, he was appointed as a Professor at Nevşehir University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He served as acting Dean as well as Head of the Department of History at the same faculty. He was appointed to Dicle University by YÖK in 2009. In November 2009, he was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and as the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences by proxy at Dicle University in November 2009. In 2012 he moved his position to Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University while he kept working at Nevşehir University. Ahmet Kankal completed his duties as Dean of Dicle University Faculty of Arts and Sciences in November 2012 and returned to Ankara, where his position is located. He served as the Dean of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences between 2013 and 2016. Between the same dates, he served as a member of the Scientific Board of the Atatürk Higher Institution of Culture, Language and History, Turkish Historical Society. Prof. is currently a faculty member at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History. Ahmet Kankal is married and the father of three children.

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kankal's research areas are on Ottoman Social and Economic History, History of Ottoman Institutions, Ottoman Diplomatics, City History, Turkish Cultural History, Armenian Social Life and Armenian Culture, and Armenian Literature Published in Turkish. He has seven published books, articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals, encyclopedia articles, and papers presented and published in national and international symposiums and congresses. In addition to being a book and magazine editor, Kankal also served as a magazine referee. He was a consultant for the program titled "The Art of Sultans" broadcast on TRT and also participated in the program as a speaker. Kankal, who has made many international and domestic trips; loves trips and visits, reading, writing, watching movies, listening to music, singing songs and folk songs, chatting, and traveling in time and space by following words and phrases.