He has been member president of many international foundations. In 1993, he donated his valuable collection of books, journals and off-prints on the history of Ottoman Empire to the library of Bilkent University. In 1994, he returned to Turkey and founded history department at Bilkent University where he is still teaching. Between 19 he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. In 1972, he was invited by the University of Chicago. He lectured in various universities in the United States as a guest professor. He entered the same school as an assistant, then he became assistant professor in 1946 and after his return from lecturing in the University of London for a while, he became a professor in the same department in 1952. His PhD thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire. He completed his PhD in 1943 in the same department. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School, and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History where he graduated from in 1940. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose for his birthday. He was born in Istanbul to a Crimean Tatar family, which left Crimea for Constantinople in 1905.
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