Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: Early Modern Espionage: Power and Information in the 16th century Mediterranean
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Gabor Agoston
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About
My research interests are Information Gathering in the Mediterranean, Grand Strategy, Ottoman Corsairs, Ottoman naval history, Center-Frontier Relations in the Ottoman Empire and Diplomacy in Constantinople. I earned my B.A. from the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University in 2003. I spent the following three years in the Department of History of the same university where I was trained as an Ottomanist and submitted an M.A. thesis on the Algerian corsairs (1516-1535) with Prof. Halil Inalcik in 2006. I recently finished my Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Gabor Agoston, on the information gathering in the Mediterranean world within the context of Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry, based on primary sources in Ottoman, Spanish, Venetian and Ragusan archives.
Linguistic skills:
Fluent in Turkish and English, advanced reading in Ottoman script, advanced reading and speaking in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, advanced reading in Latin, intermediate reading in Persian.
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