[3] He obtained a PhD from the University of London under the supervision of Bernard Lewis in 1966, and his thesis was about the Young Turk Revolution in 1908.
[2][4] It was first published by Clarendon Press in 1969 with the title The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1914.
[2] Ahmad has published many books and articles, most of which are concerned with Ottoman and modern Turkish history.
[7] His major books are as follows:[2] The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908–1914 (1969);[8] An Annotated Chronology of Multi-Party Politics in Turkey (1976, with Bedia Turgay Ahmad); From Unionism to Kemalism, Essays (1985); Turkish Experiment in Democracy (1994); The Making of Modern Turkey (1995); Turkey: The Quest for Identity (2006); From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (2008); and The Young Turks and the Ottoman Nationalities: Armenians, Greeks, Albanians, Jews, and Arabs, 1908–1918 (2014).
[2] Ahmad is the recipient of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey, which was awarded to him in August 2014.