Anastasios K. Iordanoglou

Anastasios K. Iordanoglou was born on the island of Halki in the Princes' Islands district of Constantinople. After completing his early education, he continued his studies at the Patriarchal Great School of the Nation and the Halki Theological School. Upon completing his theological studies at the same school in 1968, he successfully passed the entrance exams and enrolled in the Department of Classical Philology at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Constantinople. The following year, he transferred to the Department of Turkish Language and Literature (Turkology) at the same faculty. He was admitted to the first year because Ottoman script was a core subject in that department. In 1973, he successfully completed his four-year course of study. In 1974, due to adverse circumstances, he left his birthplace of Halki and settled in Thessaloniki. He was appointed as a scientific associate in the Turkish Department of the Institute for Balkan Studies (IMXA) and as a Turkish language instructor at the School of Balkan Languages (IMXA), holding both positions until 2000. He directed the school from 1992 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2000. From 1994 to 1999, he taught the course on Turkish Language and Literature as an hourly-paid instructor at the Special Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki. In 1998, he earned his doctorate in Theology with a dissertation on "The Metropolis of Chalcedon," and in 1999, he was assigned to teach Turkish Language at the Department of Balkan Studies in Florina. The following year, he was elected as an assistant professor of Turkish Language and Literature in the same department, where he continues to serve to this day. He authored the monographs "The National Joachim Girls' School of Constantinople 1882-1988" (1989) and "The Metropolis of Chalcedon from Antiquity to the Present" (2000). He has also written articles and participated in conferences.