İbrahim Akkurt received his BA in History from Istanbul University’s Faculty of Letters in 2010 and subsequently earned an MA in History at the same institution. He also holds a degree in Tourist Guidance from Cappadocia University. As a PhD candidate in History at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, he is completing his dissertation, “Commander of the Imperial Arsenal Ahmed Fethi Pasha: Life and Activities.” Akkurt has lectured on Istanbul’s cultural heritage, visual culture, and collective memory at Marmara University and Medipol University. His research interests include biographical studies, the institutional history of Ottoman civilization, and the urban transformation of Ottoman Istanbul.

Burhan Çağlar received his BA in History from Istanbul University’s Faculty of Letters in 2010. He then undertook graduate studies in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba and spent a year in a Persian immersion program at Tehran University. He later earned an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto and conducted doctoral research at Brunel University London. He is currently a PhD candidate in History and a research assistant at Sakarya University. Çağlar’s research focuses on late Ottoman history, particularly the Hamidian era, with interests in biographical studies, media and press history, and the organization of public and central administrations.