Prof. Türkan OLCAY

Türkan OLCAY is a Doctor of Philological Sciences (2002) and Full Professor (2012) at the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Istanbul University where she delivers courses on 19th-Century Russian Literature since 1994 and mentors master’s and doctoral students. She has also taught as a visiting professor at Anadolu University (Türkiye), L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”  (Bulgaria), Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and Jagiellonian University (Poland).

Prof. Dr. OLCAY’s fields of specialization are 19th-Century Russian literature and Turkish-Russian cultural and literary relations, as well as the life and socio-cultural activities of the Russian immigrants (known as "White Russians") in Istanbul in the 1920’s. She has participated in many conferences, has authored five books and has written numerous publications including over hundred articles and book chapters. She is the editor-in-chief of the collective works “Russkaya belaya emigratsiya v Turtsii vek spustya 1919-2019” [Russian White Immigration in Turkey: a Century Later 1919-2019”], Moscow: A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad, 2019 (in Russian) and “Beyaz Rusların Gelibolu Gurbetinin 100. Yıldönümü” [The 100th Anniversary of the White Russians’ Exile in Gallipoli], Çanakkale: ÇOMU, 2020 (in Turkish).

Prof. Dr. OLCAY has been carring out institutional and departmental administrative duties, serving on the editorial boards of leading international journals and is a member of the Expert Council of the Center for Turkish-Russian Cooperation in the field of research and practice TURUSIA at Chanakkale 18 March University.