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Harris, George S., Turkish Periodicals Collection

Collection

Identifier: GRB-000009

Dates

2012

Extent

9 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Biographical note

After almost 40 years of government service, George S. Harris (Ph.D. Harvard University) retired in 1995 as Director of the Office of Analysis for Near East and South Asia in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S.Department of State. He also served as a Professorial Lecturer on Turkey and the Middle East at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, from 1968 to 1981. In addition, he was a Research Fellow at Bilkent University and a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University. Among his publications are Troubled Alliance: Turkish-American Problems in Historical Perspective, 1945-1971; Turkey Coping with Crisis; and The Communists and the Kadro Movement: Shaping Ideology in Ataturk’s Turkey.

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