Hans-Lukas Kieser

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Hans-Lukas Kieser (born 1957)[ citation needed ] is a Swiss historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey in Basel.[ citation needed ] He is an author of books and articles in several languages.

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He became interested in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire while studying at the University of Basel where he met refugees from the 1980 Turkish military coup. [1] This interest led to a PhD thesis which later was released by the Turkish publisher İletişim. [1] [2]

He has been a lecturer or invited professor at Stanford University (2010); University of Michigan (2008); and other universities including the Bamberg University, and invited scholar at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France and the Bilgi University in Turkey. [2] He received fellowships [ which? ] from academic institutions[ which? ] in Basel, Zurich and Freiburg (FRIAS), and from the Swiss National Science Foundation. [2]

He currently lectures as a Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. [3]

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  5. ↑ "Swiss historian, Agos' Armenian section's editor and a group of distinguished figures receive Presidential Awards". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
  6. ↑ Kieser, Hans-Lukas (2011-03-14). Hans-Lukas Kieser. ISBN   9781439902233.
  7. ↑ Badem, Candan (2019). "Review of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 6 (1): 237–239. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13. ISSN   2376-0699. JSTOR   10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13.
  8. ↑ Türesay, Özgür (2019). "Talaat Pasha. Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, written by Hans-Lukas Kieser". Studia Islamica. 114 (1): 83–89. doi:10.1163/19585705-12341392. ISSN   1958-5705. S2CID   171606243.
  9. ↑ Mangold-Will, Sabine (2019). "Biography and the Myth of Leadership in History: Talaat Pasha Father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., USD$39.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 556–561. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613829. S2CID   182427725.
  10. ↑ Kurt, Ümit (2019). "Father of Modern Turkey or Father of Ittihadists?: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., USD$39.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 545–550. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613819. S2CID   182250427.
  11. ↑ Usitalo, Steven A (2019). "Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide Hans-Lukas Kieser". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (3): 451–453. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcz057.
  12. ↑ Melson, Robert (2018). "Review of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide". Genocide Studies International. 12 (2): 253–256. doi:10.3138/gsi.12.2.08. ISSN   2291-1847. JSTOR   26986104. S2CID   193103555.
  13. ↑ Maksudyan, Nazan (2019). ""This Is a Man's World?": On Fathers and Architects: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., US$39.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 540–544. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613816. S2CID   181910618.
  14. ↑ Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2019). "A Multi-Dimensional Contribution to Mass Violence Research Hans Lukas Kieser's Talaat Pasha: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., USD$39.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 551–555. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613825. S2CID   182213935.
  15. ↑ Köse, Yavuz (2021). "Hans-Lukas Kieser. Talât Pascha. Gründer der modernen Türkei und Architekt des Völkermords an den Armeniern. Eine politische Biografie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Beat Rüegger. Zürich: Chronos Verlag. 2021. 439 Seiten. ISBN-13: 9783034015974". Diyâr. 2: 150–154. doi:10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-150. S2CID   237963481.
  16. ↑ Kieser, Hans-Lukas; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (2019-07-11). The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-1788312417.
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