Doctor of Philological Sciences; philologist – orientalist; Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of TSU. Researcher on modern Turkish literature (20th -21st centuries) and the history of the Monastery of Iviron at Mount Athos after the Fall of Constantinople (15th – 20th centuries). Translator of Orhan Pamuk’s works. Studies Ottoman sources on Georgian monasteries. Postgraduate studies at Istanbul University and the summer school of academic learning in Istanbul; Bilgi University; Harvard-Koç University intensive Ottoman and Turkish summer school; studied under Faculty Development Fellowship (FDF) at the New York University, Near Eastern and Islamic Studies Department (USA).