George S. Harris Turkish Periodicals Collection

Collection

Identifier: GRB-000009

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Scope and Contents

The George S. Harris Turkish Periodicals Collection contains printed serials in Turkish and English related to Turkish domestic affairs, foreign relations, leftist political movements, and other historical and social sciences topics. It includes several government publications, including volumes of the Turkish national bibliography.

Note that researchers may prefer to use the combined inventory located in the external documents section of this finding aid. This inventory does not include items found in Box 18, which were added to the collection after the inventory was compiled.

Dates

Creation: 1928 - 2008
Creation: Majority of material found within 1950 - 1980

Conditions Governing Access

Most collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers are solely responsible for determining the copyright status of the materials being used, establishing who the copyright owner is, locating the copyright owner, and obtaining permission for intended use.

Biographical Note

George S. Harris retired as Director of the Office of Analysis for Near East and South Asia in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US Department of State in 1995 after almost 40 years. 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 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.

Extent

24.45 Cubic Feet (25 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Turkish

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The items found in Box 18 were given to the Library from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. They were transferred to Special Collections in 2025.