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He was born in Sivas in 1985. He completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Finance and Public Administration (2009) and his master’s degree in the Department of Economic History (2011) at Istanbul University. He obtained his PhD degree in Economic History at the Center for Ottoman Studies, University of Birmingham in 2018. Between February 2010 and July 2020, he worked as a research assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economic History. Dr. Serdaroğlu, currently holding the position of Assistant Professor in the same department, is also recognized as the author of “The First Bank in the Ottoman Empire: Dersaadet Bank, Merchants, and Business Networks,” a publication by İktisat Publications in 2020. Currently, he is the associate editor of Istanbul University’s Istanbul Journal of Economics and continues his research on commercial-financial operations, merchants, business networks, and companies in the context of 19th-century Ottoman Business and Finance history.
Born in 1983 in Fatih, Istanbul, Mustafa Öztürk after completion of his undergraduate studies at Sakarya University, majoring in Economics, he embarked on a path of advanced scholarship by enrolling in the master’s program in Economic History at Marmara University. He completed his master’s degree with the study titled “Hülasatü’l Efkar Newspaper and the Economic and Social Situation of the Ottoman Empire between 1873-1875.” He furthered his education within the same academic domain, ultimately earning a doctoral degree with his dissertation, titled “Cavid Bey’s Economic Thought and Practices.” At present, Mustafa Öztürk serves as a Research Assistant Doctor at Kırklareli University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, where he continues to contribute to the academic community.
She was born in 1976, in Sarajevo. She completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. She pursued his master’s studies at Faculty of Philosophy –Universityof Sarajevo with the subject: “Everyday life in Sarajevo under the rule of Topal Osman-Pasha1861-1869.” Younis earned his doctoral degree at the same university, department of philosophy by defending his dissertation on the subject of the “Merchants in Sarajevo 1851-1878.” Since 2003 she is engaged as lecturer in various positions at the University of Sarajevo – Institute of History, where currently she serves as Scientific Advisor at the same University. Notably, she holds membership in theEuropean Association of History Teachers – EUROCLIO, EthicsCommittee of Institute of History Sarajevo, Honour -Arab Women Media Centre – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan etc. Participated in many promotions, open lectures, and dialogues organized by the Institute of History University of Sarajevo.
Yunus Uğur completed his BA degree at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology, and then received his MA and Ph.D. degrees in the History Department at the same university. He worked at New York Binghamton University in the History Department as a researcher between 2003 and 2004. Then between 2009 and 2020, he was a faculty member of the History Department at Istanbul Sehir University, a director of the Center for Urban Studies and MA Progam in Urban Studies. He was in Berlin on sabbatical leave from 2016 to 2017. He has been the director of the Center for Digital Humanities and a faculty member of the History department at Marmara University since 2020. In 2024-25, he will continue his studies at Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany.
He has been a chief editor of the Turkish Studies Review (TALID) since 2003, a project leader and among founders of www.digitalottomanstudies.com and www.insidedh.com, a member of the Scientific Board of the Turkish Historical Society and the Executive Board of Global Urban History Project (GUHP). He is also a member of the European Association of Urban History (EAUH), International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC), and Middle East Studies Association (MESA). His area of interest covers Ottoman urban history, urban spaces, and neighborhoods, historiography, historical sources, digital history, oral history, historical geography, climate-environmental history, and cultural heritage.
Born on July 12, 1985, in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sedad Bešlija is a prominent scholar specializing in Ottoman history. He completed his primary education across Prijedor, Istanbul, and Sarajevo before graduating from Gazi Husrev-Beg Madrasa in 2004. In 2009, he earned a bachelor’s degree in History and Turkish Language from the University of Sarajevo with a thesis on Islamic culture in Bosnia.
He pursued advanced studies in Ottoman history, completing a master’s degree in 2012 with a focus on governance and stabilization methods in Bosnia during the 16th century. He earned his Ph.D. in 2015, presenting a dissertation on the socio-political conditions in the Herzegovinian Sanjak between the Treaty of Zsitvatorok and the Treaty of Karlowitz (1606–1699).
Professionally, he has been associated with the Institute of History in Sarajevo since 2009, serving as a research associate in Ottoman history and later as a senior research associate. Since 2015, he has been the director of the Center for Ottoman Studies in Sarajevo. Fluent in Turkish and proficient in English and Arabic, Sedad Bešlija is dedicated to exploring the historical, cultural, and political dynamics of Ottoman Bosnia.