Turk Tarih Kurumu
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| founding | 1931 |
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| Headquarters | Ankara |
| Authority management | Refik Turan |
| Website | www.ttk.gov.tr |
The Türk Tarih Kurumu (TTK, German : "Turkish Historical Society") is a scientific research institute of the Republic of Turkey with the research areas of Turkish history and Anatolian archeology. The institute was founded in 1931 under the presidency of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and included in his will as part of his estate .
Assignments and history
Founded on April 15, 1931 as "Türk Tarihi Tetkik Cemiyeti" (German: Research Society for Turkish History ) on the instructions of the first Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the research society has had its current name since October 3, 1935. Since August 11, 1983, like the Türk Dil Kurumu, it has been subject to the tasks set out in Article 134 of the Turkish Constitution .
In July 1932, the TTK organized the first Turkish History Congress. The aim there was to convey a new image of history and new methods of teaching history. Since the second Turkish History Congress in September 1937, the TTK has been organizing international congresses on a regular basis, most recently in September 2002. Since 1937 the institute has published the quarterly journal Belleten . Refik Turan is currently (since 2015) director of TTK.
History politics
The Türk Tarih Kurumu deals with many topics of the Turkish, Ottoman and Pre-Ottoman history of the region. International historians' commissions exist on various controversial topics (Turkish-Hungarian history, Turkish-Russian history). One of the most important areas of research is the Armenian genocide , which the Turk Tarih Kurumu does not consider proven.
Controversies over the denial of the Armenian genocide
After the former head of the Türk Tarih Kurumu, Yusuf Halaçoğlu, also took this stance at a lecture given in Winterthur in 2004 , the Swiss authorities subsequently opened a case of incitement to hatred against him; According to the Swiss Criminal Code ( Article 261 bis StGB), the denial of genocide is punishable in Switzerland, and so is the denial of the genocide of the Armenians . The Turkish trade minister then canceled a trip to Switzerland, and a planned trip to Turkey by the Swiss economy minister Joseph Deiss was also canceled in May 2005.
Ara Sarafian , director of the Gomidas Institute in London , was one of the participating genocide advocates at the Istanbul symposium entitled “New Approaches to Turkish-Armenian Relations” in March 2006, where he gave a lecture on the Blue Book by Arnold J. Toynbee and James Bryce , and is the UK's main source of what happened , and kept the Harput massacres from the reports of American Consul Leslie Davis . Sarafian accepted Halaçoğlu's offer to work together at the symposium. On February 20, 2007, the Gomidas Institute submitted a first project proposal, to which the TTK responded positively. The first Turkish-Armenian project on the mutually open-ended genocide investigation was supposed to be the case study proposed by Sarafian on the events in Harput . Harput , now Elazığ , is one of the main places where massacres of Armenians took place. Sarafian suggested Harput as an object of investigation because there is enough archive material about this place outside of Turkey and Harput, in contrast to Erzurum or Van, was involved in less complex war events such as B. Russian occupation was embedded. The subject of the collaboration between the TTK and the Gomidas Institute was the comparison between foreign and Ottoman archive material. The goal should be to determine to what extent both resources match and to what extent they contradict each other, whether both sources have advantages or both sources are faulty. A number of other case studies were sought.
However, there was no joint investigation. On March 7, 2007, the Gomidas Institute canceled the plan. Sarafian gave the reason that he saw Yusuf Halaçoğlu on a program on CNN-Türk, as he said that there are no lists of names of the deported Armenians in the Ottoman archives, broken down by village. Sarafian suspected that there were lists of names of the deportees, but there might not be any corresponding lists of names for the resettlement program of the deportees in place by decree of June 10, 1915, which also regulated the compensation payments for the liquidated property of the deportees in their new home. Halaçoğlu spoke of “the pressure of the Armenian diaspora on Ara Sarafian that has become too great ”. The Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos reported that the Armenian diaspora was very angry about Sarafian's plans. Halaçoğlu said a great opportunity for Turks and Armenians had been missed.
Yusuf Halaçoğlu had to resign from the leadership of the Türk Tarih Kurumu in July 2007 due to controversial information about the ethnic origin of the Kurdish Alevis .
Chairperson
- M. Tevfik Bıyıklığolu (April 1931 - April 1932)
- Yusuf Akçura (April 1932 - March 1935)
- Hasan Cemil Çambel (March 1935 - December 1941)
- Şemsettin Günaltay (December 1941 - October 1961)
- Şevket Aziz Kansu (April 1962 - April 1973)
- Enver Ziya Karal (April 1973 - January 1982)
- Sedat Alp (April 1982 - October 1983)
- Yaşar Yücel (October 1983 - March 1992)
- Yusuf Halaçoğlu (March 1992 - July 23, 2008)
- Ali Birinci (August 2008 - September 13th 2011)
- Bahaeddin Yediyıldız (Acting; September 14, 2011 - June 25, 2012)
- Mehmet Metin Hülagü (June 26, 2012 - June 23, 2014)
- Mehmet Ali Beyhan (Acting; June 24, 2014 - March 5, 2015)
- Refik Turan (since March 6, 2015)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The British Parliamentary Blue Book and the Denial of the Armenian Genocide - Paper presented at Istanbul University Symposium on Future of Turkish-Armenian Relations (15-17 March 2006) (PDF; 167 kB)
- ↑ Gomidas Institute offer to historians in Turkey: "Let's undertake a case study of the events of 1915."
- ↑ Historians working on Harput 1915 case study: an update from Ara Sarafian
- ^ Missing Ottoman Archival Records on the Armenian Genocide, 1915
- ^ Sarafian bows to diaspora pressure, says Halaçoğlu
