Walsh School of Foreign Service, on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In recent years, the ITS was located at the offices of the Edmund A.
Nearly 80 US institutions established library/research collections relating to Turkey, or added significantly to existing resources, thanks to ITS funding, and 19 American universities received seed money to support the establishment of new, Turkey-related teaching positions.” Awards to several dozen developing scholars over the last five years will pay further dividends in the future. Over 130 dissertation writing grants translated into 70-plus professorial positions at American institutions of higher education, and language and research awards helped prepare at least 235 others who took up teaching and research positions in the United States and elsewhere. The ITS press release claims that its grants, since 1983, have promoted Turkey and Turkish studies “in 45 US states plus the District of Columbia.
Muhtar Kent (former Board chairman of The Coca-Cola Company), and other individual donors. In recent years, the ITS received partial financial support from Georgetown University, Koç Holding, FIBA Holding, and Mr. To make matters worse, the institute’s leaders acknowledge, in their press release, that they have not been successful in raising sufficient funds from outside sources to continue the institute’s operations. The Turkish government stopped funding ITS in 2015. Despite the boastful press release by the institute’s leadership about its accomplishments, the withdrawal of the funds by the Turkish government implies that the institute had failed to meet its propaganda goals.Turkey needs several hundred billion dollars to recover from its economic collapse. Returning the $3 million, or whatever is left of it, to Turkey will not make a major difference in the country’s financial condition. The sum of $3 million is a relatively small amount for the Turkish government, having spent tens of millions of dollars to hire public relations and lobbying firms in the United States for many years.This was a surprising announcement for two reasons: ITS issued a press release on May 31, announcing that it will cease its operations on September 30, 2020. The Institute of Turkish Studies, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1983 with $3 million donated by the government of Turkey in Washington, D.C.
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