Prof. Dr. Kürşat Yıldırım is a faculty member in the Department of General Turkic History at the Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University. He joined the department as a research assistant in 2009, became an assistant professor in 2015, an associate professor in 2017, and was promoted to full professor in 2023.
Prof. Yıldırım has conducted extensive field research across the Turkic world and carried out academic projects and archival studies at leading scientific institutions worldwide. He has also served as a visiting lecturer in various Turkic states and as the head of archaeological excavations related to Turkic history in Mongolia