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John Martin (Chair) studied foreign languages at Cambridge and Princeton (USA), specialising in German. He taught at Göttingen University, Germany (1960-64), at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and then from 1965 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he was the Director of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics from 1974. He took his department into an academic exchange with Boğazici University, Istanbul (1978-81). He acquired the Certificate in Turkish at SOAS in 1983 and London University’s MA in Modern Turkish Studies in 1992, then introducing Turkish to the curriculum at Kent University. He has been Chair of the Turkish Area Study Group since its renewal in 1990 |
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Arın Bayraktaroğlu taught Turkish Language and Literature at Cambridge University (1977-1982) and worked as Co-Director at the Cambridge Centre for Languages (1982-2007). Her academic interests are in Cultural Studies, Sociolinguistics, and Pragmatics. She regularly publishes books and articles in refereed journals. Presently she is Fellow of Chartered Institute of Linguists, Member of Institute of Translation and Interpreting, Member of Combination Room: Cambridge University Lucy Cavendish College, Turkish specialist on the Asset Languages Project developed by OCR, and Member of Advisory Board of Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture (Walter de Gruyter). |
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Brian Beeley worked, under OECD (Paris) auspices, at the State Planning Organisation in Ankara from 1962 to 1964, after village researches in southern Turkey. He has taught at universities in the United States, Iran, and Britain, with special emphasis on Turkish and Middle Eastern studies – plus guest tutoring in the Modern Turkish Studies Programme at SOAS. He has written on migration and rural change and edited Turkish Transformation which was sponsored by TASG in 2002. He is currently an external examiner for the Arab Open University (Kuwait). |
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Tayfun Bilsel is co-founder and CEO of Rabbitsoft Ltd. innovative start-up software company. He is responsible for product development, engineering, strategic direction and the day to day running of the business. He holds an MSc in Information Technology (Software Engineering) from the University of Liverpool and degree in Computer Technology & Programming from Bilkent University. His international professional experiences include 12 years in information technologies as a Director, IT manager, System Analyst, and software developer. |
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Clement Dodd was latterly Professorial Fellow in Politics with special reference to Turkey at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, where he established the Modern Turkish Studies Programme, and was instrumental in reviving the Turkish Area Study Group.
On Turkish politics he has written The Politics and Government of Turkey (1967) Democracy and Development in Turkey (1979) and The Crisis of Turkish Democracy (2nd ed. 1990),
On the Cyprus problem, his latest book is The History and Politics of the Cyprus Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He is a regular contributor to the Turkish Area Studies Review. |
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Gerald MacLean, Professor of English at the University of Exeter, first visited Istanbul in 1975 and has been returning to Turkey regularly ever since, travelling throughout the west, south, central and south-eastern regions. His book, The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 (2004) appeared in Turkish translation as Doğu’ya Yolculuğun Yükselişi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğun İngiliz Konukları (1580-1720) (2006), while Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (2007) will be appearing in Turkish in 2009. He is a member of The Evliya Çelebi Way, a group planning to travel on horseback following the route of the great Ottoman travel writer and historian. |
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Sigrid Martin-Wünscher studied at Göttingen University, Germany (1963-64), and at Southampton University (1964-67), then becoming a research student at Kent University, Canterbury. From 1969 she was Lecturer in German at Kent University’s Institute of Languages and Linguistics, specialising in new and experimental techniques of teaching foreign languages. From 1975 to 2002 she directed an MA programme for professional translators. (This eventually included Turkish.) She is author or co-author of several books pioneering new approaches to the teaching of German. Her involvement with Turkey started with a Kent-Boğaziçi academic exchange, leading to her development of a course on Turkish authors writing in German. She is designer/secretary of the TAS Review. |
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Rezan Muir graduated from Marmara University in Istanbul with a BA in Business Administration and has since obtained a BA hons. in Sociology and Social Sciences with the Open University in UK.
She worked as an Accounting Supervisor and then as an Agency Specialist for Turkish Airlines in Istanbul from 1974-1987 and for 5 years taught GCSE Turkish at an International School in Cambridge and has also worked for a Cambridge Multicultural Education Department.
Currently working as an interpreter and language specialist which enables her to liaise with the Turkish community in a wider context. She has been the Administrative Secretary of TASG since 2005 |
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'Malcolm Wagstaff is Emeritus Professor in the University of Southampton where his teaching included a special option on the geography of the Middle East, including Turkey. He first visited Turkey in 1964 and has conducted field-based projects in the country since then, often working with archaeologists. He has also developed a special interest in the Ottoman period in Greece. The first secretary of the revived Turkish Area Study Group, he was for many years a member of the Council of Management of the British Institute in Ankara, chairing the Executive Committee for the international project at Catal Huyuk'. |
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