Volkan Levent Akgünlü

After completing primary school in Germany, he grew up in Istanbul, where his family settled. In 1995, he graduated from the Department of History at Istanbul University and began his academic career as a lecturer in the Department of Ottoman Institutions and Civilization History at Istanbul University. In 2002, he left his position at the university and moved to London, where he began his doctoral studies at SOAS. During this time, he worked for many years at the university library of University College London. To further improve his Arabic and Farsi, he spent some time in Syria and Iran during his doctoral studies. While in London, he also worked as an English translator at an international translation company. In 2016, he returned to Türkiye and took on the roles of history teacher and department head for the International Baccalaureate Program at NUN High School. He also taught English for a time after earning a CELTA teaching certificate from the University of Cambridge.