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Dr. Ümit Kurt
The Armenian Center at Columbia University and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, with the co-sponsorship of Research Institute on Turkey, will host a webinar with Dr. Ümit Kurt who will discuss his recently published book, “The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.” The program, which will be held on Tuesday, April 20, at 3 p.m., will be accessible live on Zoom and on NAASR’s YouTube Channel.
Dr. Ümit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab, the city’s name during the Ottoman period, had not only been destroyed it had been replaced. To every appearance, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish city.