Washington Post: INSTITUTE OF TURKISH STUDIES
Board Members Resign to Protest Chair’s Ousting
Leader in Georgetown-Based Agency Encouraged Scholars to Research Mass Killing of Armenians
The issue that has roiled U.S.-Turkish relations in recent months — how to characterize the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 — has set off a dispute over politics and academic freedom at an institute housed at Georgetown University.
Several board members of the Institute of Turkish Studies have resigned this summer, protesting the ouster of a board chairman who wrote that scholars should research, rather than avoid, what he characterized as an Armenian genocide.
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