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M. Şükrü Hanioğlu is a Turkish professor of lateOttomanhistory in the Department of Near Eastern Studies atPrinceton University. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the department chair.[1] Currently, he is an associated faculty member at Princeton's History and the Practice of Diplomacy Program.[2]
He received hisB.A. inpolitical science andeconomics and hisPh.D. inpolitical science fromIstanbul University. His thesis was on the political activities and thought of one of the founders of theCommittee of Union and Progress (CUP), Dr.Abdullah Cevdet.
He has done extensive research on the history of the CUP during the period from 1889 to 1908, i.e. from its foundation to theYoung Turk Revolution using organization's own papers (since it was an underground organization), archival sources including those found in theTurkish,German,Austrian,French,Swiss,Italian,Greek, andBritisharchives. He was also the first foreign scholar to visit the national archives ofAlbania, during the period when hardly anyone could visit the country.
