Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Turkish government has given $750,000 donations to Harvard and three other leading universities to endow chairs in Turkish studies, a move which has raised questions that the government may be trying to control the way Turkish history is taught...
...gift means that Harvard now has half of the $3.1 million it needs to endow a professor of Turkish Studies, according to the Boston Globe...
...Turkish government presented equal gifts to Princeton, Georgetown and the University of Chicago...
Most historians, and virtually all Armenians, say more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an extermination program by Turks which began in 1911 and continued through the first World War. But Turkish officials say far fewer Armenians died in what was a tragic civil conflict...
...There's no problem as far as setting up a Turkish chair or program," Rouben Adalian, a historian at the Armenian Assembly of America, a Washington-based lobby, told the Globe. "But it is a very disturbing trend to have a foreign government funding a program and having the influence of that government worked into the arrangement in establishing the chair...