Donald Quataert

Donald Quataert

Donald Quataert was a Middle East/Ottoman historian at Binghamton University. He taught courses on the Middle East/Ottoman history, with an interest in labor, social and economics, during the early and modern periods. He also provided training in the reading of Ottoman archival sources.[1] He died on February 10, 2011.

In 2006, Quataert resigned as board chairman of the Institute of Turkish Studies following his statement that scholars should not avoid researching what he called an Armenian Genocide. His resignation was influenced by the Turkish ambassador to the United States, Nabi Sensoy, who had told Quataert that his statement had angered government leaders in Turkey and endangered the Institute's funding.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Binghamton University;
  2. ^ Board Members Resign to Protest Chair's Ousting, by Susan Kinzie, The Washington Post, Saturday, July 5, 2008.[1]
  3. ^ [2] Defense contractors join Turkish lobbying effort in pursuit of arms deals, Dec. 17, 2009, Sunlight Foundaiton.


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