Atlanta Seminar

Professor Ataöv‘s Atlanta seminar will be held at Georgia Tech Instructional Center, room 213, on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 from 7 PM to 9 PM.  RSVP is required: Please send an e-mail to info@tacaga.com and include your name and phone number.   The seminar is jointly organized by Turkish Student Organization at Georgia Tech, Georgia … Read more

How to Come to Terms with One’s Own Past

A Probe into History Including Armeno-Turkish Relations   by Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv Coming to terms with one’s past in historical context needs to conform to a number of conditions. Otherwise, it may be misleading in several ways. The methodology of such a probe into history should be the kind utilized in any scientific endeavour. … Read more

Türkkaya Ataöv

  Türkkaya Ataöv is Professor Emeritus in International Relations at Ankara University, Turkey. He did his graduate work in the United States, where he received two M.A.s (NYU & Syracuse Univ.) and a Ph.D. (1959, Syracuse U., NY). He taught at Ankara Univ. for more than four decades and lectured in several American, British, Russian, … Read more

The Andonian ‘Documents’ Attributed to Talat Pasha Are Forgeries!

by Türkkaya Ataöv Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Ankara University A most recent (1983) publication by the Turkish Historical Society and written by Sinasi Orel and Süreyya Yuca, as a scholarly evaluation of the so-called "Talat Pasha telegrams" is most important for the proper assessment of the "Armenian issue". This momentous book of unusually competent … Read more