Orhan Kemal Cengiz
Translated by Sibel Utku Bila
Thousands of master’s theses and Ph.D. dissertations in the social
sciences are written each year in Turkey. The Higher Education Board
(YOK) keeps an electronic database of their topics and titles. A search
in the database of dissertations on the Armenian genocide returns a
striking result: Only four theses have been written on the issue and, as
their titles immediately suggest, they all reflect Turkey’s official
position on the massacres.
