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    PRESS RELEASE
    National Association for Armenian
    Studies and Research (NAASR)
    395 Concord Avenue
    Belmont, MA 02478
    Tel.: 617-489-1610
    E-mail: [email protected]


    AUTHOR RIFAT BALI TO SPEAK AT NAASR ON JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN MODERN TURKEY

    Rifat Bali, author of Model Citizens of The State: The Jews of Turkey
    during the Multi-Party Period (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
    2012), will give a lecture entitled "Forced Turkification,
    Anti-Semitism, and Lobbying against Recognition of the Armenian
    Genocide," at the National Association for Armenian Studies and
    Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA, on Thursday,
    October 17, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be co-sponsored by
    the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and
    Documentation and NAASR.

    Using archival material and first-hand accounts, Model Citizens of the
    State exposes the treatment of the Jewish community in Turkey from
    1950 to present, the struggle of Turkish Jews for their constitutional
    rights, their fight against anti-Semitism and the indifferent attitude
    of the Turkish establishment to these problems, and illustrates how
    the Turkish establishment coerced the leaders of the Jewish
    community-and through them Jewish organizations in the United
    States-to thwart efforts to gain recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

    Rifat N. Bali is an independent scholar specializing in the history of
    Turkish Jews and an associate member of the Alberto-Benveniste Center
    for Sephardic Studies and the Sociocultural History of the Jews (Ecole
    Pratique des Hautes Etudes/CNRS/Université Paris-Sorbonne). He is the
    winner of the Alberto Benveniste Research Award for 2009 for his
    publications on Turkish Jewry.

    The NAASR Bookstore will open at 7:00 p.m. the night of the lecture.
    Model Citizens of The State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party
    Period will be available for purchase the night of the lecture.

    More information about this program may be had by calling
    617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
    to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.

    Belmont, MA
    September 27, 2013

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