Institute Of Turkish Studies

The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) could be a foundation primarily based within the us with the professed objective of advancing Turkish studies at faculties and universities within the USA.

In recent years conflict has encircled the ITS in relevancy its relations with the Republic of Turkey and its denial of the Armenian racial extermination.

History[edit]

The Institute of Turkish Studies was established in 1982, with a $3 million grant from the Turkish government.[1] it's a non-profit, personal academic foundation primarily based within the us "dedicated to the support and development of Turkish Studies in yankee higher education".[2] Heath W. Lowry become the primary executive of the Institute, before turning into the incumbent of the Atatürk Chair of Turkish Studies at Princeton, that was supported by the Turkish government.[3] The Institute is housed at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Writing in 1998, the Institute's money handler expressed that ninety five p.c of the Institute's financial gain was derived from a trust administered by the Institute. [4] Donald Quataert, former member of the Institute's board of governors, has expressed that the trust's funds are often revoked by the Turkish government.

Mission[edit]

To support individual students of the educational profession within the us, for advanced analysis in Turkish history and culture yet as up to date political, social, and economic developments in Turkey;

To assist yankee universities in developing their library resources, programs of study, profound conferences, and reach activities within the field of Turkish Studies

To support the publication of books and journals on Turkey and broaden the understanding and data of Turkish history, society, politics, and economic science within the United States;

To promote higher understanding of Turkish politics, economy, and society through lectures and conferences.

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS:

OFFICERS

Nabi Şensoy, unearned Chairman and Ex Officio Member of the Board of Governors, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the U.S..

W. Henry M. Robert Pearson, ret., Chairman, former us Ambassador to Turkey David C. Cuthell, executive

Grants[edit]

Since 1983, the Institute has sponsored AN annual grant program to students, faculties and universities within the us. The principal purpose of the grant program is to support the event of analysis, and scholarship within the field of Turkish Studies. The grant applications submitted to the Institute square measure evaluated by committees composed of the Board of Governors and Associate Members of the ITS. These standing committees gift their recommendations to the Board of Governors for approval. The Institute offers grants and fellowships within the fields of Ottoman and trendy Turkish Studies to graduate students, post-doctoral students, universities, and alternative academic establishments through its Grant Program for the 2009-2010 school year.[5]

Publications[edit]

The ITS has revealed variety of books in conjunction with alternative publishers. a number of the publications supported by the Institute include:[5]

Gülru Necipoğlu The Age of Sinan: bailiwick Culture within the Turkish Empire (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2005)

Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari (eds.), Turkish Studies within the us (Bloomington: IN University, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Publications, 2003)

Leslie Peirce, Morality Tales: Law and Gender within the Ottoman Court of Aintab (Berkeley: University of American state Press, 2003)

Jenny B. White, Muslim Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002)

Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish bailiwick Culture within the Early Republic (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)

Scott film maker, Landscape and also the State in Medieval Asia Minor (Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2000)

Caesar E. Farah, The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Asian country 1830-1861 (Oxford, London: the middle for Lebanese Studies, 2000)

Palmira Brummett, Image and Imperialism within the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911 (Albany: State University of latest dynasty Press, 2000)

Howard Crane (ed. & transl.) The Garden of Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin al-Ayvansarayî’s Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman metropolis Netherlands: Koninklijke lefteyed flounder Nevada, 2000)

Dictionary of Turkish Acronyms and Abbreviations: a specific List (1928–1995) Compiled by Suzan Akkan, (Madison, Wisconsin: Turco-Tatar Press, 1999)

Kemal Silay (ed.), Turkish lore and Oral Literature: chosen Essays of Ilhan Basgöz (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Turkish Series, 1998)

Daniel Goffman, Britons within the Turkish Empire (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998)

John Goulden (transl.), Adalet Agaoğlu, Curfew (The University of American state at Austin: the middle for geographical region Studies, 1997)

Reşat Kasaba and Sibel Bozdoğan (eds.), Rethinking currentness and National Identity in Turkey (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997)

Seyfi Karabas and Judith Yarnall (transls.), Poems by Karacaoglan, A Turkish Bard (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Turkish Series, 1996)

Avigdor Levy (ed.), The Jews of the Turkish Empire (Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press: 1994)

Karen Barkey, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1994)

Kemal Silay, Nedim and also the literary study of the Ottoman Court (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Turkish Studies Series, 1994)

Henry Glassie, Turkish ancient Art these days (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993)

Halil Inalcik, the center East and also the Balkans beneath the Ottoman Empire: Essays on Economy and Society, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Turkish Series, 1993)

Heath W. Lowry and Donald Quataert (eds.), Humanist and Scholar: Essays in Honor of Andreas Tietze, (Istanbul: ISIS Press, 1992)

Aron Rodrigue (ed), Ottoman and Turkish Jewry, Community and Leadership (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Turkish Series, 1992)

Fatma Müge Göçek, East Encounters West: France and also the Turkish Empire within the Eighteenth Century (New dynasty & Washington, DC: university Press & ITS), 1987)

Aptullah Kuran, Sinan : The Grand maestro of Ottoman design (Washington, DC & metropolis, Turkey, ITS & enzyme Press, 1987*)