Workshop for Armenian/Turkish Scholarship

The Workshop for Armenian/Turkish Scholarship (WATS) is a group of scholars which is dedicated to transcending the nationalist historiography on the Armenian genocide and answering related questions. It first met in 2000. The workshop and the book it published (edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman Naimark) were widely praised as first-class scholarship that significantly advanced the field.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][excessive citations]} According to the workshop organizers, Turkish participants have faced state harassment for their participation.^[12]

Works

• Suny, Ronald Grigor; Göçek, Fatma Müge; Naimark, Norman M., eds. (2011). A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195393743.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-979276-4.

References

1. Melson, Robert (2013). "Recent Developments in the Study of the Armenian Genocide". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 27 (2): 313–321. doi:10.1093/hgs/dct036.
2. Usitalo, Steven A. (2012). "Review of A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire, Fatma Müge Göçek". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 54 (3/4): 557–558. JSTOR 23617517.
3. Eissenstat, Howard (2014). "Children of Özal: The New Face of Turkish Studies". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 1 (1–2): 23–35. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.1.1-2.23. Within this transformation, the work of WATS, the Workshop on Armenian Turkish Studies, deserves particular mention, not simply for the outstanding research that it produced, most notably the edited volume, A Question of Genocide …
4. Eissenstat, Howard (2012). "Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark, eds. , A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Pp. 464. $34.95 cloth". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 44 (3): 584–586. doi:10.1017/S002074381200061X. S2CID 163996157.
5. Verheij, Jelle (2012). "A question of genocide. Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman empire. Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek and Norman M. Naimark. Pp. xxii + 434 incl. map + 16 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £22.50. 978 0 19 539374 3". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 63 (4): 843–847. doi:10.1017/S0022046912000590.
6. Ohanyan, Anna (2012). "Transfer up or down? Dialogue groups between Turkish and Armenian communities in the United States". Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 29 (4): 433–460. doi:10.1002/crq.21051.
7. Winter, Jay (2013). "A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Ed. Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxii, 434 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $34.95, hard bound". Slavic Review. 72 (1): 134–135. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.72.1.0134.
8. Gatrell, Peter (2013). "A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire". European Review of History. 20 (5): 903–906. doi:10.1080/13507486.2013.832878. S2CID 163013768.
9. Gingeras, Ryan (2012). "A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire, ed. Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Muge Gocek and Norman M. Naimark". The English Historical Review. 127 (529): 1570–1572. doi:10.1093/ehr/ces294.
10. Polatel, Mehmet (2014). "Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark, eds. A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, xxii + 434 pages". New Perspectives on Turkey. 51: 157–162. doi:10.1017/S0896634600006786. S2CID 151334115.
11. Cheterian, Vicken (2015). Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide. Hurst. pp. 177–179. ISBN 978-1-84904-458-5.
12. Potsdam, Lepsiushaus (18 September 2017). "Turkish Government Harasses International Scholars in Berlin". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator.