Hasan Paksoy
Encyclopedia
Hasan Bülent Paksoy is a Turkish historian
(b. 1948 in Ödemiş
) who earned his doctoral degree
at St. Antony's College of the Oxford University in England
with a grant from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom. The WorldCat
(of OCLC
) lists 16 entries under his name. Most of them are available online
.
Paksoy has also worked in History departments at Ohio State University
, Franklin University
, University of Massachusetts Amherst
, Central Connecticut State University
and the Middle East Center of Harvard University
.
Paksoy, earned his undergraduate degree under the support of a Bostwick Scholarship at Trinity University
in the US in 1970. Graduate Degree with USA National Science Foundation project assistantship in 1976 at The University of Texas at Dallas.
In addition to authoring numerous original and historical works, Paksoy is the translator of such historical fiction as The Sun is Also Fire, a short story about the struggle of the Turks
of Transoxiana
to remain independent of the expanding Caliphate
in the 7th century and 8th century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02meEV6hI4&feature=player_embedded#at=92
On January 26, 2011 it was announced that the PLA Chinese Air Force began issuing pilot licenses for first time as reported by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online, again, addressing the questions raised by Professor Paksoy http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90786/7273402.html
Between 2001 and 2004, Professor Paksoy served as the Unit Head of the Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON) at Texas Tech University. As such, he took over the website containing 400 words and by the time he returned teaching, he provided additional materials (from his own, personal collection, which he amassed and paid for over the previous twenty-five years) in the amount of ten million words. That, in addition to the original collection contained in the so called "Green Volumes" which he also had digitized, and thus created the first as well as most comprehensive digital archive on the topic in the world. http://aton.ttu.edu/Press_Release_Global_Populations.asp
In 1987, Professor Paksoy published the paper “Central Asia’s New Dastans” in Central Asian Survey (Oxford) Vol. 6, No. 1, 1987. Pp. 75-92 focusing on the novel Immortal Cliffs by Mammadali Makhmudov (psed.) whose true name is Evril Turan, in Shark Yildizi (Tashkent) October and November (Nos. 9 and 10) in 1981. http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-6/cae06.html
As a result, Evril Turan was first rewarded by the Ozbek Government with the highest Honors of the Ozbek Republic in 1992, with the Cholpan Literary Award; then was jailed for the same reason. Evril Turan’s conditions were also reported by Siobhan Dowd, of the International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee (November 23, 1999) http://aton.ttu.edu/Makhmudov.asp This matter was brought to the attention of the Ozbek Republic President Islam Kerimov by the U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in April 2000 http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol14/Abdullaev.html. As one result, it was reported that Evril Turan’s imprisonment conditions were ‘lightened.” Reportedly, Evril Turan is still imprisoned.
During 1999, Professor Paksoy’s ALPAMYSH: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule (Hartford: AACAR, 1989) http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/paksoy/ was at first highly praised in the Ozbek press, http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Halkara_Yiginlarda_Orta_Asya_1992.pdf and http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Hurriyet_1999.pdf then involved in an attack by the Ozbek polemicists, which prompted Professor Paksoy to respond with “An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of Hurriyat (Tashkent)” in 2000, which is also included in his Lectures on Central Asia (Malaga: Entelequia, 2010) 2nd Ed. http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/es.lib.php?a=b014 and http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/pdf/2010/e12r03.pdf Perhaps Professor Paksoy’s “The Deceivers” Central Asian Survey, (1984) 123-131 [included in his Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994)] may have also played a part in this outcome.
Professor Paksoy’s “Alpamis ve Bamsi Beyrek: iki ad bir destan” [Turk Dili, Temmuz 1985]
http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Turk_Dili.pdf was rendered into Kazakh and republished in the journal Kazak Edebiyeti October 1986 (no. 41) http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Kazak_Edebiyeti.pdf shortly before the Kazak unrest of the same year Jeltoqsan
as detailed in his Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994). The matter continues as of 19 June 2011 http://www.neweurasia.net/media-and-internet/wordpress-inaccessible-in-kz-and-kg-spam-bots-attack-neweurasia-oh-my/
Historian
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(b. 1948 in Ödemiş
Ödemis
Ödemiş is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey. North of Ödemiş, which is 113 km southeast of İzmir, are the ruins of Hypaiapa...
) who earned his doctoral degree
Doctor of Philosophy
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at St. Antony's College of the Oxford University in England
England
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with a grant from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom. The WorldCat
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(of OCLC
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) lists 16 entries under his name. Most of them are available online
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.
Paksoy has also worked in History departments at Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
, Franklin University
Franklin University
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, University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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, Central Connecticut State University
Central Connecticut State University
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and the Middle East Center of Harvard University
Harvard University
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.
Paksoy, earned his undergraduate degree under the support of a Bostwick Scholarship at Trinity University
Trinity University (Texas)
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in the US in 1970. Graduate Degree with USA National Science Foundation project assistantship in 1976 at The University of Texas at Dallas.
In addition to authoring numerous original and historical works, Paksoy is the translator of such historical fiction as The Sun is Also Fire, a short story about the struggle of the Turks
Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...
of Transoxiana
Transoxiana
Transoxiana is the ancient name used for the portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgystan and southwest Kazakhstan. Geographically, it is the region between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers...
to remain independent of the expanding Caliphate
Caliphate
The term caliphate, "dominion of a caliph " , refers to the first system of government established in Islam and represented the political unity of the Muslim Ummah...
in the 7th century and 8th century.
External links
Professor Paksoy’s Paper "Governance on Mars" was published in Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, nº 9, primavera 2009 http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/pdf/2009/e09a05.pdf in which Professor Paksoy raised a series of questions. On Sep 17, 2010, at a press conference held in Kremlin, Moscow, introducing the International Space Station Expedition 25 Crew: NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri; NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Shannon Walker; along with Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition25/index.html the Russian Cosmonauts began answering the questions raised by Professor Paksoy beginning at time index 17 minutes, 25 seconds, of the said Press Conference. (Uploaded by NASA television)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02meEV6hI4&feature=player_embedded#at=92
On January 26, 2011 it was announced that the PLA Chinese Air Force began issuing pilot licenses for first time as reported by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online, again, addressing the questions raised by Professor Paksoy http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90786/7273402.html
Between 2001 and 2004, Professor Paksoy served as the Unit Head of the Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON) at Texas Tech University. As such, he took over the website containing 400 words and by the time he returned teaching, he provided additional materials (from his own, personal collection, which he amassed and paid for over the previous twenty-five years) in the amount of ten million words. That, in addition to the original collection contained in the so called "Green Volumes" which he also had digitized, and thus created the first as well as most comprehensive digital archive on the topic in the world. http://aton.ttu.edu/Press_Release_Global_Populations.asp
In 1987, Professor Paksoy published the paper “Central Asia’s New Dastans” in Central Asian Survey (Oxford) Vol. 6, No. 1, 1987. Pp. 75-92 focusing on the novel Immortal Cliffs by Mammadali Makhmudov (psed.) whose true name is Evril Turan, in Shark Yildizi (Tashkent) October and November (Nos. 9 and 10) in 1981. http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-6/cae06.html
As a result, Evril Turan was first rewarded by the Ozbek Government with the highest Honors of the Ozbek Republic in 1992, with the Cholpan Literary Award; then was jailed for the same reason. Evril Turan’s conditions were also reported by Siobhan Dowd, of the International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee (November 23, 1999) http://aton.ttu.edu/Makhmudov.asp This matter was brought to the attention of the Ozbek Republic President Islam Kerimov by the U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in April 2000 http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol14/Abdullaev.html. As one result, it was reported that Evril Turan’s imprisonment conditions were ‘lightened.” Reportedly, Evril Turan is still imprisoned.
During 1999, Professor Paksoy’s ALPAMYSH: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule (Hartford: AACAR, 1989) http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/paksoy/ was at first highly praised in the Ozbek press, http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Halkara_Yiginlarda_Orta_Asya_1992.pdf and http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Hurriyet_1999.pdf then involved in an attack by the Ozbek polemicists, which prompted Professor Paksoy to respond with “An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of Hurriyat (Tashkent)” in 2000, which is also included in his Lectures on Central Asia (Malaga: Entelequia, 2010) 2nd Ed. http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/es.lib.php?a=b014 and http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/pdf/2010/e12r03.pdf Perhaps Professor Paksoy’s “The Deceivers” Central Asian Survey, (1984) 123-131 [included in his Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994)] may have also played a part in this outcome.
Professor Paksoy’s “Alpamis ve Bamsi Beyrek: iki ad bir destan” [Turk Dili, Temmuz 1985]
http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Turk_Dili.pdf was rendered into Kazakh and republished in the journal Kazak Edebiyeti October 1986 (no. 41) http://aton.ttu.edu/pdf/Kazak_Edebiyeti.pdf shortly before the Kazak unrest of the same year Jeltoqsan
Jeltoqsan
The Jeltoqsan or "December" of 1986 were riots that took place in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Konayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, and the subsequent appointment of Gennady...
as detailed in his Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994). The matter continues as of 19 June 2011 http://www.neweurasia.net/media-and-internet/wordpress-inaccessible-in-kz-and-kg-spam-bots-attack-neweurasia-oh-my/