History

Hello, my name is Alev Direr Akhan. I am working at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Department of History, Ancient History program. Our department is one of the first departments established in 2007 within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As of 2013, we started to receive students. For the Science of History, we can say that history constitutes the memory of a nation. Being able to know this memory and transfer it to future generations is one of the most important factors while constructing our future. We are planning and working to raise this awareness in our students who will choose our department in the light of History Science. As the academic staff, we have organized an education program within this framework, prepared our curriculum under six main disciplines and we try to keep this curriculum updated every year. We have Ancient History, Medieval History, Modern Age History, Turkish Republic History, General Turkish History and New Age History. And our courses are under these main disciplines, such as the History of Civilization, Ottoman History, Aegean and Greek History, Ottoman Turkish, and the History of the Turkish States, where our students can achieve fluency in Turkish and World history. As Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, the students who will choose our department have the opportunity to receive education in different countries or at different universities in our country with different education programs such as Erasmus, Farabi, and Mevlana within the framework of the cooperation protocols signed. Our department organized the Tekirdağ Historical Symposium in 2016. This symposium focused on Tekirdağ History, which has not been studied for many years. Apart from that, 2 studies were carried out in 2019, especially on immigration from Bulgaria. We attended the Migration of 1989 Symposium as a stakeholder. Another workshop is the Migration Workshop. There have been good studies on our citizens, especially those who had to emigrate from Bulgaria. A lot of academic data were collected. All three studies I mentioned were conducted in an international platform. Of course, apart from these studies, there are many national and international symposiums attended by our department’s professors. Of course, our students who graduate from our department can make an academic career at our university or in different universities, and become history teachers. They can find jobs within the General Directorate of Foundations, state archives, the Ministry of Culture or the archive units of the Ministry of Interior. I can say to the candidates who will choose the department; First of all, Tekirdağ is a city where they can easily reach from every region in Turkey with transportation facilities. As for the location, with its proximity to Istanbul, it is in a region where they can easily benefit from archives, libraries and museums. Our city also provides a lot of opportunities for students. In addition, our university offers a lot of cultural and sports opportunities for students. In other words, when you come here as a student, you can benefit from many cultural and social opportunities besides your education. Dear young people, if you choose us after the exam, we will go on a 4-year journey with you and at the end of this journey, we will graduate you with your diplomas and send you off as our colleagues. I wish success to all candidates who will take the exam.