BA Degree 1987-1990 

Master’s Degree 1994-1996

Doctorate Gazi University 1997-2004

Prof. Mustafa BALCI worked as an Assistant Professor at Cankiri Karatekin University, as an Associate Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University and Kirikkale University. Now he is a professor at Istanbul University. He supervised 9 MA degree theses and 5 Doctorate theses. He took part in 6 different projects and had positions like Project of Preparing Teaching Program of Turkish Culture and Civilization, Effective Communication Skills Bases on Drama and Games for to Bilinguals. Mustafa had different administrative positions like Head of Department at different Universities from 2009 to 2016, Head of Major Department until 2019 and Director of Institute for Turkological Studies from 2019 until 2024. He published 27 articles in different national and international journals, 39 book chapters and 24 conference papers in journals and conference proceedings and 20 other publications. He is an editor of 77 books. ​

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