Altay Bayatlı

Altay Bayatlı (born July 27, 1982) is an Iraq-born Turkish history researcher.

Altay Bayatlı
Born	27 July 1982 Baghdad, Iraq
Education	Archeology & Art History
Alma mater	Trakya University

He was born as a son of a linguistic and history scholar parents. When he was 6-year-old, in 1988, the Bayatlı family sought refuge in Turkey and settled in Edirne in the same year. After studying Vocational School Mechanic Department at Erciyes University, Kayseri, for two years, he has returned to Edirne and completed his Classical Archeology License at Trakya University School of Arts. Later, he learned Ottoman Turkish by doing his master’s degree as Edirne Masonry Bridges[1] titled thesis on the Art History field within the same university. In 2017, he started his doctorate studies at Trakya University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of History. He collected the digital scans of the maps and plans belonging to Edirne from various archives. He organized the exhibition Bird’s Eye Edirne[2] in 2018. With this exhibition, it became popular at a level far beyond what was envisaged. It became news to the press from various parts of the world. In the 2017-2018 spring term, he gave a term anthropology course[3] in the professorship of social sciences teaching at Trakya University, the School of Education. He is also the president of a research team called Vagus Nerve Research Community[4]. A study he prepared with his research team on an Edirne city plan and demographic analysis, which he obtained from archive research. It was published in 11 languages in his first edition and then in 19 languages in his extended edition named “Edirne City Plan". In this study, a city plan and urban history prepared for the presentation of the Trakya-Paşaeli Protection of Law Community. This vigilantist intellectual contingent was established in Western and Eastern Thrace to defend the rights of Turkish people, founded immediately after the Armistice of Mudros.

Also, Bayatlı studies on celestial incidents in the Ottoman archive records. One of his works was published in the journal of Meteoritics & Planetary Science in April 2020 under the title “Earliest Evidence of a Death and Injury by a Meteorite"[5]. With this study, he brought the first fatal meteor crash into the literature. That study once again led him to the world media.