Baki Sarısakal
Turkish historian (born 1954)
Baki Sarısakal (born 1954) is a Turkish researcher, historian and author.
Biography
Baki Sarısakal was born in Samsun in 1954. He completed his primary and secondary education at Samsun. He graduated from 19 Mayıs (19 May) Highschool and then graduated from the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography of Ankara University. He prepared his thesis is named Political partys's social basisc in Turkey under Kurtuluş Kayalı. He learned from Afet İnan, Emre Kongar, Erdal Yavuz, Metin and Şerafettin Turan, Kurtuluş Kayali, Nejat Kaymaz. He worked being a history teacher at Edirne Pasinler Erzurum Aşkale and Pasinler high schools and he retired from Samsun Trade and Anatolian Trade vocational high school. His articles were published variously national and local newspaper and magazines. He contributed enlightening of history of Samsun writing name tags of historical artifacts which are located in different situations. He consulted on Samsun protocol road 'Kurtuluş wharf', Samsun Gazi Museum's restoration works and city culture studies.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4849429. VIAF identifies the subject as 24357282. The Library of Congress control number is no2006075154. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954.
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