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The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present
Hakan Kırımlı
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
This talk will be in-person, but you can also connect via Zoom; register in advance here: https://bit.ly/3R5bWhm.
The Crimean Khanate was one of the successor states of the Golden Horde. Its royal dynasty was the Geray house, which asserted its descent from Chinghis Khan. In 1475, the Crimean Khanate entered into an alliance with the Ottoman Empire which gradually evolved into a vassalage. The Ottoman protectorate over the Crimean Khanate lasted exactly three centuries (1475-1774). During this period, vital mutual interests bound both states together and they surely benefitted from each other’s existence. The Ottomans, thanks to the Crimean Khanate, secured their hold over the Black Sea basin and its vast northern hinterland and made extensive use of the distinguished Crimean Tatar cavalry in their numerous wars. The Crimean Khanate, on the other hand, enjoyed the powerful support of the Ottoman Empire against its own regional enemies.
Associate Professor Hakan Kırımlı (Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison) teaches Russian and Soviet history, with particular emphasis on the Black Sea region, the Turkic/Muslim peoples of the Crimea, Volga-Ural region, and the Caucasus, and the History of Russian thought and Intelligentsia. Among many score scholarly articles and books most prominently he is the author of National Movements and National Identity Among the Crimean Tatars (1905-1916)(Leiden, 1996). His articles are published in journals such as Cahier du Monde Russe et Sovietique, Middle Eastern Studies, Insight Turkey, Cahier du Monde Russe, Voprosy İstorii ve Central Asian Survey. Dr. Hakan Kırımlı was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He was the director of the Center for Russian Studies at Bilkent University and the member of the Turkish Historical Society.
Co-sponsors: The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series
Contact: Rose Cortese