Prof. Halil İnalcık, founder of the Department of History, was commemorated on the 10th anniversary of his passing at a HICOS seminar held on Thursday, October 1. Prof. Özer Ergenç gave a talk titled “Öğrencisi Özer Ergenç’in Anlatımıyla Halil İnalcık (“Halil İnalcık as Told by His Student Özer Ergenç”) in the C-Block Auditorium. The talk was one of a series of conferences marking the anniversary.
Prof. İnalcık, a professor of Ottoman history at Bilkent since 1993, passed away on July 25, 2016. One of the most prominent historians of the Ottoman Empire, he published hundreds of scholarly works and received numerous honorary doctorates over his career.
Drawing on his years as Prof. İnalcık’s student, Prof. Ergenç reflected on the historian’s life and scholarship.
