Speaker: Mehmet Ölmez (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)

Date: January 15, 2015 – Thursday

Time: 14:00-16:00

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Language: English, Turkish

Speaker Biography: Dr. Mehmet Ölmez is a professor of Turkish language and Turkology at Yildiz Technical University, Turkey. He graduated from Hacettepe University in 1994 with a doctoral degree in Turkic philology and linguistics. Before teaching at Yildiz Technical University, he was a research fellow at University of Giessen and University of Gottingen, Germany. His research area includes ancient Turkic literature, Tuvan language, Uyghur studies and Altaic lingustics.