Prof. Ali Fuat Arıcı completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Classroom Teaching at Süleyman Demirel University (1998), and his master's degree (2002) and doctorate (2005) in Turkish Teaching at Atatürk University. After working as a teacher at the Ministry of National Education for 10 years, he was appointed to Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish Education as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Arıcı, who became an Associate Professor in 2011, became a Professor in the field of Turkish Education in 2017. Prof. Arıcı currently works for Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Social Sciences and Turkish Education. Prof. Dr. Ali Fuat Arıcı has many articles published in journals indexed in national and international directories. Prof. Arıcı's research areas include Turkish language and literature education, and Turkish education.

Selim Hilmi Ozkan is Professor of History at the Yildiz Technical University. He is currently working on the Ottoman diplomacy and Ottoman foreign policy. His most recent publications include “Reasons for Migration of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire before 1915”, African and Asian Studies, 19, 3, (2020), 282-305; and “Arms Smuggling across Ottoman Borders in the Second Half of the 19th Century” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18, 3, (2016), 297-312. He is currently working on a book project: Migrations and Migration Routes from Cebel-i Lebanon to United States of America End of Nineteenth Centuries.