Inside Higher Ed: Turkey Denies Pressure on SUNY Professor
Turkey’s embassy to the United States has posted a formal response to allegations that its ambassador pressured Donald Quataert, a professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, to step down as chair of the board of the Institute of Turkish Studies, which was created by Turkey’s government to support scholars in the United States. Quataert says that he was told that the funds for the institute were at risk if he remained as chair because he had used the word “genocide” to describe what happened to Armenians during World War I. While there is a wide historical consensus that Armenians did suffer a genocide, Turkey denies this. The embassy originally did not respond to inquiries about Quataert’s allegations, but now has released a statement denying that any threats were made and saying that Turkey regretted the resignation.
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