Emrah Safa Gürkan (born 16 January 1981) is a Turkish historian, professor of Ottoman studies, and academia Having received his B.A.
thesis titled Ottoman Corsairs in the Western Mediterranean and Their Place in the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry, 1505-1535 with Halil Inalcık (2006).
[2] Gürkan studies the early modern Mediterranean with a focus on espionage, piracy, slavery, religious conversion, naval technology, and the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the West.
[5] Gürkan has worked as a historical consultant to the TV series Fatih and Rise of Empires: Ottoman.
In 2011, with Chris Gratien, he founded the Ottoman History Podcast, a website that has more than 400 interviews in four languages with many different "authors and researchers".