Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...army now surrounds the city, exchanging small-arms and mortar fire with the enemy and biding its time before launching a full-scale attack. Elsewhere in Kurdistan, the two factions skirmish and engage in terrorist acts. Three weeks ago, for example, a car bomb exploded in Zakhu, near the Turkish border, injuring 50 people. U.S. intelligence analysts haven't pinned down which side carried out the bombing or whether it was the work of Saddam's agents trying to incite more trouble between the two factions...
...Besides recently, has always had a professorship that covers this period," said Jewett Professor of Arabic Muhsin Mahdi. "This new professorship allows us to maintain the continuity in Turkish studies at Harvard...
According to Professor Mahdi, the new chair has implications for Turkish studies in the United States...
...that Harvard has one of the most distinguished Turkish studies faculties in the country, we will be better able to train other scholars in this field," he said...
Acting director of the CMES Edward L. Keenan, who is also Mellon Professor of History, said "this grant gives us the opportunity to make Harvard a real center for Turkish studies on a permanent basis...