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Date Time: May 27, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

 Mehmet Polatel, Ph.D. Lectures on “Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property”

 Organized by:

 Tekeyan Cultural Association

 co-sponsored by

AGBU Western District,

Armenian Assembly of America,

Armenian Council of America,

Armenian Rights Council of America,

Armenian Society of Los Angeles,

Nor Serount Armenian Cultural Association,

and

 Organization of Istanbul Armenians

 This virtual lecture by Dr. Mehmet Polatel focuses on the Young Turks’ expropriation and destruction of Armenian properties.

Dr. Polatel is currently a Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. degree from Bogazici University in Istanbul with his dissertation centered on the emergence and transformation of the Armenian land question in the late Ottoman Empire. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he earned a B.A. in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2007, and an M.A. in Comparative Studies in History and Society from Koç University in Istanbul in 2009. After receiving his Ph.D., he was awarded a Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellowship in Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Polatel’s research interests focus on state-society relations, socioeconomic history, the Armenian Genocide, and the dispossession of Armenians. He is the co-author a book with Uğur Ü. Üngör entitled “Confiscation and Destruction: Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Properties” (Bloomsbury, 2011). In addition, Dr. Polatel has published several articles and book chapters on the Hamidian Massacres, the land question, and the Armenian Genocide.

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