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Journal articles indexed in SCI, SSCI, and AHCI 3

1. At the heart of the Harem: Ottoman Princesses in the light of power (15th-18th centuries)

Mercan O.
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY , vol.78, no.1, pp.264-266, 2025 (AHCI) identifier

2. A diplomacy woven with textiles: Medici-Ottoman relations during the late Renaissance

Özden Mercan F. Ö.
Mediterranean Historical Review , vol.35, no.2, pp.169-188, 2020 (AHCI) identifier

3. A Struggle for Survival: Genoese Diplomacy with the Sublime Porte in the Face of Spanish and French Opposition

Mercan F. Ö.
Journal of Early Modern History , vol.23, no.6, pp.542-565, 2019 (SSCI) Creative Commons License identifier
Articles Published in Other Journals 7

1. An Ottoman Envoy at the Medici Court: Mustafa Agha's Reception in Florence (1598)

Mercan F. Ö.
ANNALI DELL'ISTITUTO STORICO ITALO-GERMANICO IN TRENTO , vol.49, no.1, pp.97-123, 2023 (ESCI)

2. Toskana Elçisi Neri Giraldi’nin İstanbul’daki Maceraları (1598)

Mercan F. Ö.
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi , vol.39, no.2, pp.433-447, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal) identifier

3. From the Genoese to the Perots: The Genoese Community in Byzantine/Ottoman Constantinople (14th–15th C.)

Mercan F. Ö.
TARIH INCELEMELERI DERGISI , vol.36, no.2, pp.591-619, 2021 (ESCI)

4. "Medicilerin Tuhaf Bir Hediyesi: Şemsi Ahmed Paşa’ya Anıt Mezar” [“A Bizarre Gift from the Medici: Tombstone for Semsi Ahmed Pasha

Mercan Ö.
JOURNAL OF TURKISH STUDIES , no.53, pp.253-267, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

5. Bir Asya İçeceği (Bevanda Asiatica), Kont Luigi Ferdinando Marsili ve Osmanlı Kahve Kültürü” [“Bevanda Asiatica, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili and Ottoman Coffee Culture”

Kalpakli M., Mercan Ö.
JOURNAL OF TURKISH STUDIES , vol.1, no.51, pp.363-383, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

6. The Role of Religion in European-Ottoman Relations

Mercan Ö.
Arcadian Library Online , vol.1, no.N/A, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

7. Papa II. Pius’un Fatih Sultan Mehmet’e Mektubu: Hristiyanlık’a Davet mi, Avrupa’ya Mesaj mı? [Pope Pius II’s Letter to Sultan Mehmed II: An Invitation to Christianity or a Message to Europe?]

Mercan Ö.
JOURNAL OF TURKISH STUDIES , vol.3, no.35, pp.47-60, 2011 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences 11

1. A Man of Two Worlds: Anton Çelebi’s Extraordinary Life in Livorno

MERCAN F. Ö.
Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 2 - 05 November 2023, (Full Text)

2. Intriguing Stories of (Un)Successful Diplomatic Negotiations in Ottoman Constantinople (1578-1581)

MERCAN F. Ö., CAPRIOLI F.
Oxford Üniversitesi, Early Modern Diplomacy (c. 1400-1800) Seminar, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Oxford, England, 01 November 2022, (Full Text)

3. An Ottoman Envoy at the Medici Court: Mustafa Agha's Reception in Florence

MERCAN Ö.
Crossroads in Early Modern Italy: Encounters between Foreign Travelers and Local Inhabitants FBK-ISIG Trento, Italy, 23 - 24 June 2022, (Full Text)

4. From Constantinople to Livorno: Merchants, Migration, and Transfer of Technologies

MERCAN Ö.
1st Joint Levantine Heritage Foundation / Medici Archive Project Event, England, 30 September 2021, (Full Text)

5. Connecting Courts and Markets: Ottoman Merchants and the Medici-Ottoman Diplomacy in the Late Sixteenth Century

MERCAN Ö.
Renaissance Society of America, Virtual Conference, 13 April 2021, (Full Text)

6. Cenevizlilerin Karadeniz’deki Varlıkları ve Faaliyetleri

MERCAN Ö.
Uluslararası Konur Alp Gazi ve Düzce Tarihi Sempozyumu, Düzce Üniversitesi, Turkey, 23 - 24 November 2018, pp.399-420, (Full Text)

7. Commercial Rivalry and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean before the Northern Invasion

MERCAN Ö.
The European History & Politics Workshop, European Institute, Columbia University, New York, United States Of America, 09 December 2019, (Full Text)

8. The Genoese Community in Byzantine/Ottoman Constantinople (14th-15th c.)

MERCAN Ö.
Medieval Studies Seminar, Columbia University, United States Of America, 29 October 2019, (Full Text)

9. Becoming Part of the Urban Fabric: The Genoese Community in Byzantine/Ottoman Constantinople (14th-15th Centuries)

MERCAN Ö.
Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean (6th-15th Centuries), Institut d’Etudis Catalans – Institució Milà I Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain, 08 July 2019, (Full Text)

10. Diplomacy Woven With Textiles: Florentine Gifts to the Ottoman Court in the second half of the 16th century

MERCAN Ö.
Splendid Encounters VIII: Les Gestes de la Diplomatie: objets, ceremonies, langages corporels / The Gestures of Diplomacy: Objects, Ceremony, Body Language (1400-1800), Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, 30 May 2019, (Full Text)

11. Loyal Subjects or Potential Threats? The Genoese Community of Constantinople/Istanbul between 1453 and 1566

MERCAN Ö.
20th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25 June 2013, (Full Text)
Books 9

1. Una Duplice Visione del Levante: Ferdinando I de’ Medici e Gli Ottomani

Mercan F. Ö.
in: Il Mediterraneo a Firenze. La Sala di Bona e di Preveza a Palazzo Pitti e Il Suo Restauro , Cecilia Frosinini, Editor, Giunti Editore, Florence, pp.194-205, 2025

2. An Ambivalent Attitude Towards the East: Ferdinando I 'de Medici and the Ottomans

Mercan F. Ö.
in: The Mediterranean in Florence: The Hall of Bona and Preveza in Palazzo Pitti and Its Restoration, Cecilia Frosinini, Editor, Giunti Editore, Florence, pp.194-205, 2025

3. Commercial Rivalry and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean before the Northern Invasion: Italian Interactions during the latter half of the Sixteenth Century

Mercan F. Ö.
in: Tarih ve Tarihçiliğe Dair: Serhat Küçük için Yazılar, Mehmet Öz,Fatih Yeşil,Ömer Gezer, Editor, Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, Ankara, pp.123-146, 2024

4. Henrietta Liston’s Travels: The Turkish Journals, 1812-1820

Mercan F. Ö. (Editor)
Edinburgh University Press , Edinburgh, 2020

5. Karadeniz’in Güney Kıyılarında Ceneviz Varlığı ve Faaliyetleri (13.–15. yy.),” [“Genoese Presence and Activities in the Southern Coast of the Black Sea, 13th-15th c.”]

MERCAN Ö.
in: Konur Alp Gazi ve Düzce Tarihi Sempozyumu. Bildiriler, Ertuğrul, Ali; Yaşa, Fırat, Editor, Türk Tarih Kurumu, pp.399-420, 2020

6. Ortaçağ İngilteresi’nde Kadınlar ve Bir Güç Aracı Olarak Hamilik” [“Women and Female Patronage as a Tool for Power in Medieval England”]

MERCAN Ö.
in: Ortaçağ’a Yeni Yaklaşımlar. Ekonomi, Savaş, Kilise, Yaşam, Kocabıyıkoğlu Çeçen, Zeynep, Editor, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, pp.269-286, 2019

7. Constructing a Self-Image in the Image of the Other: Pope Pius II’s Letter to Sultan Mehmed II

MERCAN Ö.
in: Practices of Coexistence. Constructions of the Other in Early Modern Perceptions, Birnbaum, D.; Sebók, Marcell, Editor, CEU Press, pp.71-102, 2017

8. The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century: Draperio and Spinola Families

MERCAN Ö.
in: Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries, Isom-Verhaaren, Christine; Schull, Kent F., Editor, Indiana University Press, pp.42-54, 2016

9. Medici-Ottoman Diplomatic Relations (1574-1578): What Went Wrong

MERCAN Ö.
in: The Grand Ducal Medici and the Levant: Material Cultural, Diplomacy, and Imagery in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Caroscio, Marta; Arfaioli, Maurizio, Editor, Brepols, pp.19-31, 2016
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