Mehmet Olmez#
| Membership Number: | 4593 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mehmetolmez.org |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018.06 - Professor, Istanbul University
- 2015.04 - 2015.07, Visiting Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Languages
- 2012.03 - 2012.06, Visiting Researcher, The National Minorities University, Beijing, China
- 2005.10 - 2006.02 Visiting Professor, Goettingen University
- 2001.02 - Part time teacher, Bogazici University, Istanbul
- 2001-2018 - Professor, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2000-2001 - Associate Professor, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey
- 1998-2000 - Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- 1995-1998 - Associate Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara
- 1987-1995 - Research Assistant, Hacettepe University, Ankara
- 1986-1987 - Language Expert, Turkish Language Society, Ankara
Fields of Scholarship
- Chinese loanwords in Old Turkic
- Middle Turkic language and philology
- Turco-Mongolian language contacts
- South Siberian Turkic languages
- Kazakh language
- Old Uighur philology
- Old Turkic language
- Turkic languages of China
- Kirghiz language
- Old Uighur Buddhism
- Azerbaidjani language
- Modern Turkish morphology
- Old Turkic inscriptions
- Lexicology of Anatolian Turkish dialects
Honours and Awards
- 1992 - present Elected member of Societas Uralo-Altaica, Goettingen
- 2013 - 2019 ADD membership in German Orient Institute
- 2013 - 2016 Member of Turkish Language Society
