CURRICULUM VITÆ Turkish-German University Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences Department of Political Sciences and International Relations POL 550-551 Behice Tezçakar Özdemir www.behiceozdemir.com
[email protected] General Overview Behice Tezçakar Özdemir who is an author, history researcher, professional expert on industry history and journalist born and raised in Bosphorus (Istanbul). She received her B.A in History as a valedictorian of Istanbul Bilgi University. She got the Master’s Degree from History Department of Boğaziçi University. She specialized on the Turkish- German industrial relations and the roles of German enterprises and companies on the industrial developments of Ottoman territories including today’s Turkey, Middle East and Balkans. Her research book ‘Discovery of Oil in the Minds and Lands of the Ottoman Empire’ is published internationally (2009). Özdemir is co-writer for ‘Daheim in Konstantinopel-Deutch Spuren am Bosporus ab 1850- Memleketimiz Dersaadet 1850’den itibaren Boğaziçi’nde Alman izleri’ published by Pagma Verlag in Germany (2013). Her last research book ‘History of Siemens from Empire to Republic - In the Light of Documents from State Archives’ was published for Siemens 160th anniversary (2016). In that work she examined different territories of Ottoman Empire like Constantinople, Baghdad, Basra, Fao, Sudan, Mosul, Aleppo, Tripoli, Rhodes, Thessalonica on behalf of the industrial activities in different sectors like communications, mobility, energy and industry, defense, cities and building technologies, human resources and healthcare. In 2018, she conducted the research project of Thyssen Krupp and she prepared a book that covered the defense, iron and steel industry services of the Germans through the company of Thyssen Krupp, in Ottoman lands (in the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Middle East and North Africa ) during the Prussian period.