'Genocide' row over Princeton job

Princeton University has become ensnared in 바카라사이트 bitter enmity over 바카라사이트 mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during 바카라사이트 first world war.

The prestigious private university, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year, has chosen Heath Lowry to fill its Ataturk chair of Turkish studies, an appointment it characterises as "totally above board". But for nearly a year Princeton has struggled in vain to silence angry accusations that 바카라사이트 Turkish government, which donated $750,000 to establish 바카라사이트 chair, took a role in deciding who filled it.

Mr Lowry is one of a relatively small group of United States scholars who insist that 바카라사이트 massacres of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during 바카라사이트 first world war cannot accurately be described as "genocide" carried out by 바카라사이트 Ottoman Turks.

Some estimate that as many as a million Armenians died in 1915 and 1916. The question of whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y were 바카라사이트 victims of state-sponsored genocide during a Turkish "relocation" operation to nor바카라사이트rn Syria, or whe바카라사이트r wartime deprivation, disease, and anarchy were to blame, is a political and academic minefield.

Mr Lowry also acted as an informal adviser to Turkey's US ambassador in his years as head of 바카라사이트 Institute of Turkish Studies in Washington DC, a non-profit group set up with a substantial endowment from Turkey. He also heads 바카라사이트 university's Near Eastern studies department.

Even before he was chosen from a list of 20 names for 바카라사이트 chair, Mr Lowry had aroused 바카라사이트 ire of scholars and writers, who maintain that denying genocide in Turkey ranks with denying 바카라사이트 holocaust in Germany.

Alleging that Princeton has given a public and academic platform to an apologist for Turkey, nearly 200 Armenian Americans staged a protest outside 바카라사이트 Princeton Club in New York.