Yeditepe University History Department and Yeditepe University History Society invited renowned historian Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı to give a speech at the university. Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı gave a talk entitled “The Recent History of Turkey” and shared his knowledge about recent history by giving examples from Turkey and the world.

Pointing out that recent history is open to exploitation and manipulation, Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı explained that it is not possible to know recent history without having knowledge about ancient history. Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı compared commenting about recent history without knowledge about ancient history to giving a concert without knowledge of musical notes and added that a real historian should know all aspects of history before they comment about it. Ortaylı emphasized that by using different aspects of historical events you can create different histories and said that teaching wrong information about history can create big problems in a society and can cause political crises in international relations.