Abdulkadir Inan

Äbdelqadir İnan; 26 September 1889 – 1 October 1976, Istanbul) was a Turkish historian and folklorist of Bashkir background.

Due to difficulties with the local Government he left for Tachkent, where he wrote for the newspaper Ackoy.

[1] In 1923 left the Soviet Union over Ashgabat, Iran, Afghanistan and India to Europe where he worked in libraries in Paris and Berlin.

[1] He finally settled in Turkey in 1925[2] where he became an assistant to Mehmed Fuad Köprülü[1] and was involved in the development of the Sun Language Theory.

In 1933, he was appointed as the head specialist[3][4] of the Turkish Language Association and in 1935 he assumed as a Professor in Turkology at the University of Ankara.