Following my graduation from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2007, I found myself again at my parent’s house in my hometown of Gaziantep, formerly known as Aintab.
Ümit Kurt
Ümit Kurt is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire with a particular focus on the transformations of imperial structures and their role in constituting the republican regime. Kurt is Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow. He is the author of several books in Turkish and English, including The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide. He is Vice Executive Secretary of International Network of Genocide Scholars and is currently teaching in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.