Comments on: Turkish Censorship Getting More Coverage http://blogian.hayastan.com/2008/07/06/turkish-censorship-getting-more-coverage/ Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Greg Arzoomanian http://blogian.hayastan.com/2008/07/06/turkish-censorship-getting-more-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 Greg Arzoomanian Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:49:58 +0000 http://blogian.hayastan.com/?p=1259#comment-1389 Interesting find. Obviously there are no "higher ups" than an organization's Chairman of the Board. One possibility is that the higher up was actually someone in the Turkish Government and Gumen just didn't realize it. But it could also be that "higher up" was in reference to the snitch. So some low level academic told some higher level one who told Ankara. There probably needed to be someone like that to point out Quataert's review -- what are the chances that the Turkish Ambassador is going to be reading the Journal of Interdisciplinary History? Of course, the fact that it took a year and a half for this to become public shows that there are a lot of people in Turkish Studies who are ok with serving at the pleasure of the Turkish government. And now we see, in Inside HigherEd & the WaPo, ITS Director Cuthell publicly throwing his fellow scholar under the bus to please the nice people who fund his institute. It will be a good thing if this results in the exposure of other academics who are so slavishly devoted to serving Turkey that they betray their colleagues. Interesting find. Obviously there are no “higher ups” than an organization’s Chairman of the Board. One possibility is that the higher up was actually someone in the Turkish Government and Gumen just didn’t realize it. But it could also be that “higher up” was in reference to the snitch. So some low level academic told some higher level one who told Ankara. There probably needed to be someone like that to point out Quataert’s review — what are the chances that the Turkish Ambassador is going to be reading the Journal of Interdisciplinary History?

Of course, the fact that it took a year and a half for this to become public shows that there are a lot of people in Turkish Studies who are ok with serving at the pleasure of the Turkish government. And now we see, in Inside HigherEd & the WaPo, ITS Director Cuthell publicly throwing his fellow scholar under the bus to please the nice people who fund his institute.

It will be a good thing if this results in the exposure of other academics who are so slavishly devoted to serving Turkey that they betray their colleagues.

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