Turkana Allahverdiyeva

My research topic focuses on mainly 'Non-elite Household Slavery in Crimean Khanate in 1700–1720.' I am intensively working with Kadiasker court records of Crimean Khanate starting from 1700–1701. I read sources in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, English, and Russian.

My interest areas also include Strong Asymmetrical Dependency (SAD) in the Ottoman Empire, Daily life of Slaves and Captives, Hiring Human Bodies and Dependency in the 18th century, and Deschiphering Ottoman Turkish Archive materials.

since 2021
Research Associate and Equal Opportunity Representative at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), Bonn University

2018–2021
Teaching Assistant (TA) at the History Department, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey

• Courses:
  -HIST 101 – History of Modern Turkey I – Fall Semester, 2018, taught by Dr. Faruk Yaslicimen
  -HIST 102 – History of Modern Turkey II – Spring Semester, 2019, taught by Prof. Halil Berktay
  -SPS 101 – Society and Humanity I – Fall Semester, 2019, taught by Prof. Halil Berktay
  -SPS 102 – Society and Humanity II – Spring Semester 2020, taught by Prof. Halil Berktay

2014–2018
Head of the Career and Development Center, Baku Business University, Baku, Azerbaijan

2022                                                                                                                                                                    Archival research in Istanbul, Turkey (BCDSS, Bonn University)

2021                                                                                                                                                        Advanced Ottoman Turkish Summer School Scholarship (BCDSS, Bonn University)

2018–2020
Highest Achievement Scholarship and yearly tuition waive (Ibn Haldun University, Turkey)

2019
Intermediate Ottoman Turkish Summer School Scholarship (Ibn Haldun University, Turkey)

2015–2016
Erasmus Effort T1 Staff Exchange Scholarship (IPVC, Portugal)

2007–2011
Azerbaijan State Higher Education Scholarship (Baku, Azerbaijan)

2023                                                                                                                                       

• "He Detains Me Against My Will: Slave Struggles for Freedom in the Early Modern Crimean Khanate," Turkologentag 2023, 21–23 September 2023, Vienna, Austria
• "Being a Female Slave in Early Modern Bakhchysarai: Umm al-walads," Workshop "Slavery in the Islamicate World," TraSIS and BCDSS, 30 August–1 September 2023, Bern, Switzerland
• "Practises of Slavery in the Early Modern Crimean Khanate: Voices of Non-Muslim Slaves," Workshop "Slavery, Law, and Religion in the Early Modern Period," 8–9 March 2023, UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

2022                                                                                                                                                               

• "Non-Elite Female Slavery and Agency in the Eighteenth-Century Crimean Khanate," 56th Annual Meeting MESA, 1–4 December 2022, Denver, Colorado, USA
• "Beni Icareye Dutmuş idi: Indentured Service and Agency of Non-Muslims in the Early Eighteenth Century Crimean Khanate," OTTOLEGAL, 3–15 October 2022, Istanbul Sabancı University, Turkey
• "Agency and Manumission of Non-elite Household Slaves in the early Eighteenth-century Crimean Khanate," Deutscher Orientalistentag, 12–17 September 2022, Free University Berlin, Germany
• "'I Came to this Country of my own Will': Slave Trade in the Early Eighteenth- Century Crimean Khanate," History Days, 27–29 August 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2019

• "Analysis of Ransom Slavery Alongside The Ottoman-European Frontiers-Temeşvarlı Osman Aga," Graduate Congress for Modern Turkish Studies , 19–21 April 2019, Istanbul Şehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

2021

• Certificate of Attendance for "TK- Mental Strategies: Stay calm during your doctorate," August/September 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn
• Certificate of Attendance for "Academic English Refresher: C1/C2," June 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn
• Certificate of Attendance for "Basic of the Law on fixed-term contracts," May 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn
• Certificate of Attendance for "Getting Started – The Successful Path to a Doctorate Degree," May 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn
• Certificate of Attendance for "Project and Time Management fort the PhD," April 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn
• Certificate of Attendance for "Preparing Funding Applications," March 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn
• Certificate of Attendance for "Navigating Social Media for Scientists," March 2021, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn

 
2019                 

• Certificate of Participation in Graduate Congress for Modern Turkish Studies at Istanbul ̇ Şehir University for the thesis presentation on "Analysis of Ransom Slavery Alongside the Ottoman-European Frontiers-Temeşvarlı Osman Aga," 19.04.2019, Istanbul, Turkey

 
2018   

• Certificate of Training on "Enhancing Quality Assurance Departments at Azerbaijan Universities" at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 25.08.2018–01.09.2018, Stockholm, Sweden
• Certificate of Teaching Mobility within Erasmus+ (STA), 23–28 April 2018, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

 
2017     

• Certificate of Teaching Mobility within Erasmus+ (STA) – SMK, 20.03.2017–24.03.2017, University of Applied Social Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania

 
2015–2016 

• Certificate of Staff Exchange Mobility in the Erasmus Mundus Project Education Force: Driving Mobility for EU – East Europe Cooperation (Effort) for a period of 10 months, 19.09.2015–05.07.2016, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), Viana do Castelo, Portugal

 
2014         

• Mevlana instructor at University of Kastamonu – Academic Staff Certificate of Attendance, 3–9 November 2014, Kastamonu, Turkey

2022       

• Lecture on "Asymmetrical Dependency and Non-Elite Slavery in
  the Early Modern Crimean Khanate," 24.11.2022, Ghent University, Belgium

 
2020   

• Research Seminar on "Non-elite Household Slavery in the Eighteenth-century Crimean Khanate," 9.3.2020, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

Book Reviews

• 2022. "From Slaves to Prisoners of War, The Ottoman Empire, Russia and International Law, Will Smiley, Oxford, 2018." In Sehepunkte. Open access
• 2022. With Zeynep Yeşim Gökçe and Bahar Bayraktaroğlu. "Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire, edited by. Stephan Connermann and Gül Şen, Bonn University Press, University of Bonn, 2020." In Sehepunkte. Open access
• 2022. "Osmanlı Sarayında Sanatçı Cariyeler, IV Mehmed Dönemi 1677–1687, Günnaz Çaşkurlu, Ötüken, 2020." In Sehepunkte. Open access
• 2021. "Captives of the Sultan, a Captive Camp in Istanbul (1715), Cemal Çetin, Palet Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2015." In Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, Selçuk University. Open access