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Ruben Safrastyan
Armenian historian and Turkologist
Ruben Arami Safrastyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Արամի Սաֆրաստյան; born 5 October 1955) is an Armenian historian and Turkologist who specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, genocide, Middle Eastern and regional studies. He is currently a professor of history and Turkish studies at Yerevan State University and head researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, of which he is a full member. He was director of the Institute of Oriental Studies from 2006 to 2020. He has also served as a counsellor of the Armenian Embassy in Germany.[1]
Safrastyan has authored or edited more than 30 books and more than 200 articles and papers.[2] He is also the founding editor of the academic periodicals Turkic and Ottoman Studies (since 2002) and Contemporary Eurasia (since 2012),[3] as well as editor of the academic yearbook Peoples and Countries of the Near and Middle East (Yerevan, Armenia).