Ruben Safrastyan

Ruben Arami Safrastyan (; born 5 October 1955) is an Armenian historian and Turkologist who specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, genocide, Middle Eastern and regional studies. He is currently a professor of history and Turkish studies at Yerevan State University and head researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, of which he is a full member. He was director of the Institute of Oriental Studies from 2006 to 2020. He has also served as a counsellor of the Armenian Embassy in Germany.

Safrastyan has authored or edited more than 30 books and more than 200 articles and papers. He is also the founding editor of the academic periodicals ''Turkic and Ottoman Studies'' (since 2002) and ''Contemporary Eurasia'' (since 2012), as well as editor of the academic yearbook ''Peoples and Countries of the Near and Middle East'' (Yerevan, Armenia). Provided by Wikipedia