Mehmet Doğar

PhD Candidate in Modern European History
Postgraduate Researcher at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies
Image

I completed my undergraduate and Master’s studies at the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where I wrote my Master’s thesis on Turkish-Italian diplomatic relations in 1932-1939. I was also a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses on world history from September 2019 to June 2020.

At Cambridge, my PhD focuses on socio-economic relations between Turkey and Italy in the interwar period and is supervised by Dr Kate Fleet. I am particularly interested in the Italian economic presence in Turkey, how networks of influence functioned on the ground as well as the role of propaganda and cultural exchanges between Turkey and Italy in this period. My PhD is generously funded by a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. I am also a Postgraduate Researcher at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College.

My research interests lie in the socio-economic and diplomatic history of the late Ottoman empire and the early Turkish republic. I am interested in Turkey’s relations with Europe in the interwar period, in particular with Italy and Britain. I am also interested in Italian colonialism in the early twentieth century as well as the history of the interwar Mediterranean.

I am available to supervise the following papers:

Part IA Outline Paper 11 (The Twentieth-Century World)
Part IB Topic Paper 14 (Europe's Modern Age of Violence, 1914-1949)

I can also supervise any individual essays which focus on the history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey; the history of the Fascist Italy and interwar Europe in general; and, the history of the Middle East in the twentieth century.

“A Pragmatic Partnership: Count Volpi, Fascist Italy and the Establishment of the Central Bank of Turkey (1928-1931)”, 2ndMeeting, CALM – Cambridge-LMU PhD Training Collaboration in the Contemporary History of Global Europe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 2-4 November 2022.

“The Business Activities of the Italian Levantines and Residents in the Early Turkish Republic”, 1922: In the Wake of the Death of an Empire, Political Transitions and Minority Strategies of Entrenchment in the Eastern Mediterranean, École française d'Athènes, Athens, 24 June 2022. 

"Using Cartoons as an Historical Source: The Case of the Early Turkish Republican Cartoons of the 1930s”, Methods and Approaches in Contemporary History, CALM – Cambridge – LMU PhD Training Collaboration in the Contemporary History of Global Europe, University of Cambridge, 18-19 May 2022.

“An Overview of Turkey’s Economic Relations with Italy in the Interwar Period (1919-1939)”, Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, 18 February 2022.

“The Place of Italy in Turkish Foreign Policy in the 1930s”, Modern European History Workshop, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 26 November 2020.

“From “a Castle to Protect Peace” to “an Institution of Mussolini”: The Criticism of the League of Nations in Turkish Cartoons during the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia (1935-6)”, Global History Student Conference Istanbul, Istanbul Şehir University, 22-24 June 2018.

Contact

Tags & Themes

Address

Selwyn College, Grange Road, CB3 9DQ, Cambridge

Email
md872@cam.ac.uk