March 26, 2010 @ 4:20 pm
Turks & Armenians: What Really Happened on April 24 , 1915 (Lecture by Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv)
Turkish American Student Association at the University of Minnesota (TASA) and The Turkish American Association of Minnesota (TAAM) are organizing a lecture by Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv. In an “Assembly of Turkish American Associations” (ATAA) national speaking tour, Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv, a highly respected historian and professor will give a lecture on the political landscape and events of April 24, 1915 which will serve to enlighten the general public with a view toward reconciliation based on truth.
Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv
ATAA Capital Forum and National Speakers Bureau Program
US-Canada Lecture Series
Supported by Turkish Coalition of America
Turks & Armenians: What Really Happened on April 24, 1915
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
2:00 -4:00 pm
Mississippi Room, Coffman Union, University of Minnesota
300 Washington Ave. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0110
Organized by:
Turkish American Student Association at University of Minnesota
and
Turkish American Association of Minnesota
Biographical Sketch of Prof. Dr. 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, German, Dutch, Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, African and Australian universities. He is the author of close to 140 books (most of which have been in foreign languages and printed in Europe or in the Americas), a few hundred academic treatises, and a few thousand newspaper articles. His writings have been translated into 20 languages and appeared in 17 European, 13 Asian, 5 African, and 3 American states and Australia. He was elected to central executive positions of UN-related international organizations, dealing with racial discrimination, human rights, terrorism, nuclear war, and exchange of prisoners of war.
Professor Ataöv published 80 books or booklets on the Armenian issue, was invited (as “witness of authority”) by the Paris court to the two (1984 & 1985) trials of Armenian terrorists, participated in the UN (1985) Geneva meetings of the Human Rights Commission on the Genocide Convention, and partook in several meetings of the European Parliament that dealt with the Armenian issue.
Filed under TAAM, TASA Permalink · No Comments »