İlber Ortaylı

İlber Ortaylı
İlber Ortayli in Preveza in 2009
Born (1947-05-21) 21 May 1947
CitizenshipTurkish
Alma materAnkara University
University of Chicago
Known forHistory of the Ottoman Empire
History of Turkey
Seljuk Empire
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
Doctoral advisorHalil İnalcık

İlber Ortaylı (Turkish: [ˈilbæɾ oɾˈtajɫɯ]; born 21 May 1947) is a Turkish historian and professor of history of Crimean Tatar origin at the MEF University, Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2005, he was appointed as the director of the Topkapı Museum in Istanbul, until he retired in 2012.