Curriculum
Vitae of Dr. Ufuk TAVKUL
He was born in Ankara in December 15th
in 1960. He is a Caucasian in origin. His family has emigrated from the Karachai-Balkar region of the Caucasus to Turkey in
1905. His Karachai-Balkar family name is Tokhchukov
in Caucasus.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Turcology from Hacettepe University in Ankara. He
received his Master of Arts degree in Sociology from Hacettepe University and he received
his Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Hacettepe University. He is a
specialist on the Caucasus. He has more than a hundred articles on the ethnic, social,
cultural structure of the Caucasian peoples. He can speak and write in Karachai-Balkar
language as well as in Turkish. He prepared a dictionary and grammar of Karachai-Balkar
language.
He has been working as a specialist archivist and
documentalist in the “State Archives of Turkish Republic” since 1988.
From 1992 to 1996 he gave lectures about the ethnic
and political situation of the Caucasus in the General Staff of Turkish Republic, to the
staff officers. Since 1998 he has been giving lectures about the Caucasus in the National
Security Academy of the General Staff.
He has been working as a guest lecturer in the
Modern Turkic Languages department of Ankara University and he has been teaching
Karachai-Balkar language and grammar.
He has been in the Caucasus and Trans-Caucasus
several times. His relatives still live in Karachai-Circassian and Kabardin-Balkar
republics of Russian Federation.
He is also interested in mountaineering,
paragliding, scuba diving, speleology, archery and ornithology. He climbed the highest
mountains of Turkey (for example Mt. Ararat, 5165 meter) and Caucasus (for example Mt.
Elbrus, 5642 meter). He is also interested in observing the mountain birds, especially the
vultures and the eagles. He has a large dia-positive collection from the mountains of
Turkey and the Caucasus (approximately 5000 dias).
He has been studying on the ethnic and social
structures of the Caucasian Peoples (Abkhas, Adige-Circassian, Karachai-Balkar, Osset,
Chechen-İngush and Dagestan), the folklore and the language of the Karachai-Balkar
people.
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