Turkish Historical Society
The door Tarih Kurumu ( TTK, German: " Turkish Historical Society ") is a scientific research institute of the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish history research and Anatolian archeology. The Institute was founded in 1931 under the presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and used in his will as part of his estate.
Mission and history
As " Türk Tarihi Tetkik Cemiyeti " ( German: Research Society of Turkish history ) Under the direction of the first Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ' on April 15, 1931 established, carries the Research Society since October 3, 1935 its present name. Since August 11, 1983, she is under Türk Dil Kurumu as well as the conditions laid down in Article 134 of the Turkish Constitution tasks.
In July 1932, the TTK organized the first Turkish History Congress. The aim was there to give a new view of history and new methods of history teaching. Since the Second Turkish History Congress in September 1937, the TTK by organizing international conferences, most recently in September 2002. Since 1937, the Institute is the quarterly magazine Belleten out. Currently ( since 2012 ) is Mehmet Metin Hülagü Director of TTK.
Politics of History
The door Tarih Kurumu deals with many issues of Turkish, Ottoman and vorosmanischen history of the region. At various controversial topics ( Turkish Hungarian history, Turkish - Russian history ) are international historical commissions. One of the main research fields of the Armenian genocide, which is considered by the Türk Tarih Kurumu as not proven.
Controversies surrounding the denial of the Armenian genocide
After the Türk Tarih Kurumu former head of Yusuf Halacoglu, had expressed this attitude in a 2004 lecture held in Winterthur, a procedure has been initiated against him for sedition in the wake of the Swiss authorities; according to the Swiss Penal Code (Article 261 bis ) is the denial of genocide a criminal offense in Switzerland, so that the denial of the Armenian genocide. Then the Turkish Trade Minister canceled a trip to Switzerland, a planned trip of the Swiss Economics Minister Joseph Deiss to Turkey was also canceled in May 2005.
Ara Sarafian, of Armenian director of the London Gomidas Institute, was one of the participating genocide advocate at the Istanbul Symposium entitled " New Approaches in Turkish- Armenian relations " in March 2006, in which he a presentation of the Blue Book, which Arnold J. Toynbee and James Bryce has been written and is the main British source for the operations, and held the massacres in Harput from the reports of the American consul Leslie Davis. Sarafian accepted the offer made by Halacoglu at the symposium offer of cooperation. On 20 February 2007, the Gomidas Institute presented a first proposal, to which the TTK answered positively. The first Turkish-Armenian Project for open-ended for both sides genocide investigation should be proposed by Sarafian case study on the events in Harput. Harput, today Elazig, is considered one of the main places where massacres took place on Armenians. Sarafian Harput suggested before as the object, because about this place enough Archival outside Turkey exists and Harput as opposed to Erzurum or Van in less complex war events such as Russian occupation was embedded. The cooperation between the TTK and the Gomidas Institute had the comparison between foreign and Ottoman Archive Material for the subject. The objective should be to determine to what extent they match resources and how they contradict each other, if both sources have advantages or both sources are incorrect. The aim was to a number of other case studies.
However, it did not come to common investigation. Already on 7 March 2007 said the Gomidas Institute from the plan. Sarafian gave as a reason to have seen Yusuf Halacoglu in a broadcast on CNN Turk, as the latter had said that there were in the Ottoman archives not divided by villages lists of names of deported Armenians. Sarafian suspected that there were lists of names of the deportees, but there may be no corresponding lists of names for the existing decree of June 10, 1915 resettlement program of the deportees, which also regulated the compensation for the property liquidated the deportees in their new home. Halacoglu spoke of " too big become pressure of the Armenian Diaspora to Ara Sarafian ". The Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, had reported that the Armenian Diaspora was very upset about Sarafians projects. Halacoglu further stated a great opportunity for Turks and Armenians had been missed.
Yusuf Halacoglu was forced to resign in July 2007 due to controversial data on the ethnic origin of the Kurdish Alevis from the line of Türk Tarih Kurumu.