Career
The author of over 100 works on the Ottoman Empire and Romanian history, he has translated into Romanian documents written in Ottoman Turkish. Gemil is a professor at the Ovidius University in Constanţa (its Prorector since 2004). He was employed by the A. Doctorate. Xenopol Institute of History and Archeology in Iaşi, and later by the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest.
A native speaker of Crimean Tatar and Romanian, Gemil has studied Ottoman and Modern Turkish, Turkmen, and Azerbaijani, as well as having a grasp of English, French, Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz.
In the months following the 1989 Revolution, he joined the new provisional governing authority, CPUN, created around the National Salvation Front. After the 1990 legislative election, he represented Constanţa County in the Chamber, sitting with the Turkish Democratic Union (UDTR) group, serving on the Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sport, as well as on the Committee on Human Rights, Religious Affairs and National Minority Issues.
Tahsin Gemil is married to Nafiye Gemil, and has fathered a daughter (born in 1970).
