School of English

Who's Who

2009 Evliya Çelebi Expedition Riders

Andrew Byfield, botanist, co-author of Türkiye’nin 122 Önemli Bitki Alanı [122 Important Plant Areas of Turkey] (2005)

Patricia Daunt, Writer, wife of a former ambassador to Turkey; contributor to Cornucopia magazine.

Ercihan Dilari, horseman, horse-breeder, and founder of The Akhal-Teke Riding Centre, Avanos, Cappadocia

Pınar Durmaz, Trekkist and academic, Istanbul Kultur University

Dr Caroline Finkel, Ottoman historian and author of Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire (2005); published in Turkish as Rüya’dan İmparatorluğa Osmanlı: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Öyküsü (2007)

Özcan Görürgöz, Entrepreneur, Hanedan Kervansaray Restaurant, Avanos, Cappadocia

Alper Katrancı, Entrepreneur, Skyway Balloons, Cappadocia

Professor Donna Landry, University of Kent, author of Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture (2008); to be published in Turkish by E-Yayınları

Professor Gerald MacLean, University of Exeter, author of Looking East (2007) and The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 (2004); published in Turkish as Doğu’ya Yolculuğun Yükselişi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğun İngiliz Konukları (1580-1720) (2006) Doğu’ya Bakış,  Turkish translation by Sinan Akilli. Ankara: METU Press, April 2009.

Thérèse Tardif, Advertising executive, formerly of Saatchi and Saatchi, Montreal, Canada

Susan Wirth, Writer, photographic editor, Der Spiegel, New York

Ayşe Yetiş, Veterinarian, Turkish Jockey Club, Istanbul

Core Participant Non-riders in 2009

Dr Leyla Neyzi, Sabanci University, Istanbul, anthropologist and oral historian, and author of Amele taburu: the military journal of a Jewish soldier in Turkey during the war of independence (2005) “Remembering Smyrna/Izmir: Shared History, Shared Trauma.” History and Memory 20, 2 (Fall/Winter 2008): 106-127. “Object or Subject? The Paradox of ‘Youth’ in Turkey.”  International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 (August 2001): 411-432.

Emir Mahir Başdoğan, horseman and broadcaster of Adeta Dörtnala [Walk and Canter], Açık Radyo, Istanbul; contributor to Zeck magazine

Metin Aker and Sedat Varış, support staff

Mehmet and Mehmet from Ajans21 documentary film company, Istanbul:www.ajans21.com

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Last Updated: 12/05/2011