Şükrü Aktas is a nominee for Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Ankara University, Turkey. His primary research areas include Sinology, the ancient history of northern Chinese ethnic groups, the history of ancient nomadic peoples, the ancestors’ history of the Xiongnu and Turks, and the history of ancient myths. Currently, he is conducting research on the history of the Massagetae and Greater Massagetae.