Professional Affiliation

University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture, Universiteit Leiden

Expert Bio

Alp Yenen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research themes include The end of the First World War and the making of the modern Middle East. He is specialized in the so-called "Young Turk era," a transitional period from the late Ottoman Empire to post-Ottaman world, ca. 1889-1927. However, Dr. Yenen has also recently been teaching an working on Turkey and the Middle East in the Cold War period. His second book project will be centered on the "long" 1970s.