Turkey 
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SOURCE: Stockholm Center for Freedom
7/22/2020
Scholars to Erdoğan: Persecution of Professor Şık shows your disregard for academic freedom and public health
In a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Professor Dina Rizk Khoury urged that all charges against Professor Bülent Şık, a food engineer working on public health and food safety, be dropped.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/27/2019
A Turkish dam is about to flood one of the oldest continuously settled places on Earth
The project has also faced years of stiff resistance from critics who said its benefits were hardly worth the cost to local communities and from historians, archaeologists and others who say the preservation of Turkey’s cultural heritage is a global concern.
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11/7/19
The History Briefing on the Assassination of ISIS Founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: How Historians Have Discussed Recent News
by Lila Someshwar
Historians give much-needed context to a complex issue.
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SOURCE: NY Times
10/29/19
A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House
by Samantha Power
For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
10/30/19
National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959
by William Burr
During Mid-1960s Turkish Officials Were Interested in Producing an “Atomic Bomb”
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10/20/19
The Greatest Danger in the Kurdish Crisis
by Zaman Stanizai
If the heavy-handedness of the Turkish military is any indication, Erdogan seems to be bent on the ethnic cleansing and relocation of Kurds in northern Syria and resettling their lands along the Turkish border with Arab Syrian refugees currently residing in Turkey.
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10/20/19
Kurdish Stalingrad: The Origins of the US-YPG Battle Synergy
by Robert Troy Souza
The American president would be wise to familiarize himself with the recent history that led to the small falafel shop in central Kobane that bears his name.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
10/17/19
Historian Brad Simpson Says He's Never Read a Letter As Unhinged As Trump's To Erdogan
Among those on Twitter voicing their bemusement, was U.S. foreign relations expert Brad Simpson, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut.
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SOURCE: CBS News
10/15/19
Video of the Week: The history behind Turkey's involvement in Syria's civil war
Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria highlights the complicated relationship between the U.S., Turkey and the Kurds.
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10/15/19
An Act of Betrayal and Infamy
by Alon Ben-Meir
To think that the President would sell America’s interests and abandon its allies for the sake of personal financial gain is not merely outrageous but criminal.
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SOURCE: UPI
7/24/19
Historian unearths evidence that Istanbul directed Armenian genocide
New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.
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SOURCE: Euro News
6/10/2019
New dam on River Tigris threatens thousands of years of heritage in Turkey
A new dam being built on the River Tigris is believed to responsible for potentially displacing around 50 thousand people from the area, and the historical losses are incalculable.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/21/19
Destroying Istanbul to 'Restore' It
Many Istanbulites are concerned that the city’s plans for the future leave its storied past behind.
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SOURCE: WAMU
3/18/19
The Turkish Embassy’s Surprising Role In Desegregating D.C. Jazz
What was a completely segregated art slowly — and somewhat secretly — began to integrate in the halls of the Turkish Embassy.
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2/16/19
Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition
by Alon Ben-Meir
An Open Letter to Turksih President Erdogan
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SOURCE: Newsweek
6-29-18
Ritual Child Sacrifice Uncovered in Bronze Age Turkey
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E.
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
5-13-18
Daniel Pipes says regime change in Iran is “inevitable”
by Daniel Pipes
In an expansive interview he gives his views on Iran, Turkey and the future of Islamism.
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
12-23-16
Two Bullies, Putin and Erdoğan, Try Friendship
by Daniel Pipes
Turks and Russians have a long and complex history.
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SOURCE: The Sundial
11-10-16
Armenian students protest Atatürk scholar to leave campus
They objected to a new book by Baylor University history professor George Gawrych.
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SOURCE: hurriyet.com
8-6-16
Erdogan crackdown includes book burning
Libraries are being required to remove books by banned publishers.
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