Assoc. Prof. MUSA YAVUZ ALPTEKİN

Assoc. Professor Musa Yavuz ALPTEKIN;

He was born in Bayburt. His family is originally from Trabzon/Çaykara county, Karaçam (Yukarı Ögene) Village. He received his primary and high school education in Bayburt, and his university education in Istanbul and Istanbul University. He completed his Master's (2000) and PhD (2006) studies in the Department of Sociology at the Social Sciences Institute of the same university, Department of Social Structure-Social Change.

In 2006, he started to teach Sociology at Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Four years later, he transferred to the Faculty of Letters, Department of Sociology of the same University. At this stage, he went to the USA as a visiting researcher in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, with the Postdoctoral Research Scholarship of the Higher Education Institution, to conduct research on the ethnic composition, immigration and integration of America, and he also studied the Meskhetian Turks in Denver. He carried out a seven-month theoretical and field study involving Upon his return to Turkey at the end of 2010, he was appointed as the head of the Sociology department and for four and a half years following this date (February 2016), he carried out the basic establishment processes of the department, such as the formation of the academic staff and the approval of the undergraduate and graduate student admission files by HCI (High Commission Institute).

In the period of July-September 2013, with a six (6)-month overseas research scholarship provided by Karadeniz Technical University and for three months during the summer break, as a visiting researcher, International Islamic University, Department of Sociology, in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He carried out a theoretical and ethnographic study in During this time, he had the opportunity to examine the tension between the Nation-State and Ethnic differences and possible solutions on Malaysia, theoretically, ethnographically and practically.

Between March 4 and July 31, 2017, he received a TÜBİTAK Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship for five months at the University of Birmingham in England, one of the world's leading experts in his field, a lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Political Scientist Prof. Dr. He went to this university with the invitation of Stefan Wolff and Prof. Under the supervision of Wolff, he conducted a theoretical study on the subject of "Kurds in Turkey and the Middle East".

In October 2021, again with TÜBİTAK's post-doctoral research scholarship abroad, for 8 months (he paid the remaining time for a year in total), the director of the Center for Turkish Studies, an institution of Duisburg-Essen University, He went to Germany at the invitation of Professor Hacı Halil Uslucan. Under the consultancy of Uslucan, he conducted a quantitative and qualitative diaspora study titled "The Formation of the Turkish Diaspora in Germany", whose data were collected from 300 people, members and volunteers of 52 Turkish associations in Duisburg and Essen.

On August 6, 2023, with an unpaid research assignment, he went to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to conduct social structure, culture, folklore and ethnography studies. His work here continues.

Focusing on the sub-disciplines of Sociology, Urban Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology and Ethnic Sociology, the author's book, City and Society, consists of his doctoral thesis, as well as a monograph in Malaysia and a monograph in which he examines the Contracting profession in Trabzon, and geo-political in which he examines the concept of Patriotism in Trabzon. There are five copyrighted works including monographs and 17 edition book works that he edited. Alptekin is also the editor of HABITUS Journal of Sociology, as well as TR Indexed IMGELEM Journal, and the founding president of the BİLGİTOY Association, the umbrella organization that publishes these journals. Published in various national and international journals, more than 70 English in the context of Global urbanization trends, Urban Transformation, Capitalism, ethnic structure of the Middle East, social integration process in the European Union, nationalism, nation building, migration, diaspora, nation state and ethnic differences. and Turkish articles, book chapters and papers. He still continues his academic activities in the Department of Sociology at KTU and gives undergraduate and graduate courses focused on Political Sociology.

He has been publishing two scientific Journals since 2017. First one is Journal of Imagination (İMGELEM): https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/imgelem    and the second one is HABITUS Journal of Sociology: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/habitus