Mehmet Dogar

Mehmet Doğar is nearing completion of his PhD at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, where his research focuses on Turkish-Italian economic relations during the 1920s and 1930s. He is a Bye-Fellow at Homerton College and a Postgraduate Researcher at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College.

Over the past three years, Mehmet has supervised a significant number of undergraduate students at Homerton and other Cambridge colleges, teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and global history. Additionally, he delivers a lecture titled “The Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean” as part of Part II Paper 24: Rethinking Europe from the Mediterranean Shores, 1796–1914, convened by Dr Fernanda Gallo at the Faculty of History.

His publications include “‘Complete Neutrality’ or ‘Controlled Enmity’? The Role of the Turkish Press during the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36”, Turkish Historical Review, 10 (2-3) (2019), 213-51; and “The Place of Italy in Turkish Foreign Policy in the 1930s”, Middle Eastern Studies, 58 (1) (2022), 48-69.