By Prof. Turkkaya Ataov

Türkkaya Ataöv is Professor Emeritus in International Relations at Ankara University, Turkey. He did his

graduate work in the United States, where he received two M.A.s (NYU & Syracuse Univ.) and a Ph.D.

(1959, Syracuse U., NY). He taught at Ankara Univ. for more than four decades and lectured in several

American, British, Russian, German, Dutch, Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, African and Australian

universities. He is the author of close to 140 books (most of which have been in foreign languages and

printed in Europe or in the Americas), a few hundred academic treaties, and a few thousand newspaper

articles. His writings have been translated into 20 languages and appeared in 17 European, 13 Asian, 5

African, and 3 American states plus Australia.

He was elected to central executive positions of UN-related international organizations, dealing with

racial discrimination, human rights, terrorism, nuclear war, and exchange of prisoners of war. Professor

Ataöv published 80 books or booklets on the Armenian issue, was invited (as "witness of authority") by

the Paris court to the two (1984 & 1985) trials of Armenian terrorists, participated in the UN (1985)

Geneva meetings of the Human Rights Commission on the Genocide Convention, and partook in several

meetings of the European Parliament that dealt with the Armenian issue.

 Professor Ataöv received 17 academic awards or medals in recognition of his published works and

activities. They include two (Italian and Federal Yugoslavian) presidential medals, two UN-aliated

awards, and several honorary doctorates and academic citations