Turkey Ends Funding for Controversial Research Institute

Institute of Turkish Studies

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Inside Higher Ed News)””A controversial institute supporting research in Turkish studies has lost its funding from Turkey’s government, raising questions about whether an institute that has long been perceived by some in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies as pushing the Turkish state’s agenda had grown too independent for the government’s liking.

The Institute of Turkish Studies, a nonprofit based at Georgetown University, has been accused of pushing the Turkish state’s agenda on the Armenian genocide. The Turkish government objects to the use of the term “genocide”