Mesut Uyar

A graduate of the Turkish Military Academy in 1991 with an MA in politics and a Ph.D. in international relations from Faculty of Political Sciences Istanbul University. Uyar specialises in war studies, particularly on operations other than war. As a career officers he served at platoon leader and company and battalion commander positions in various infantry units and several tours of peace support operations duties as military observer at UN mission in Georgia and as staff officer in Afghanistan. He served as assistant professor of international relations at the Turkish Military Academy for ten years. He was also the curator of the Military Academy Archive and Museum Division for five years where he started his research about Ottoman military history. He spent one year as an instructor and academic advisor at the Peace Support Training Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently working as an associate professor of Ottoman military history at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.
m.uyar@adfa.edu.au