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İlber Ortaylı
Turkish historian
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dead
- born
- 1947
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 78
- known for
- historian, university teacher, legal historian
1947 – 2026

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who i̇lber ortaylı is
İlber Ortaylı was a Turkish historian and professor of history of Crimean Tatar origin at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Ankara University and Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2005, he was appointed the director of the Topkapı Museum in Istanbul, until he retired in 2012.
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