Armenian and Turkish Scholars to Have Fifth Meeting in US in May

The 5th meeting of the Workshop for Armenian and Turkish Scholarship (WATS) will be held at New York University May 14-16. All 4 previous meetings organized by professors Fatma Muge Gyocek, Gerard Liparitian and Ronald Grigor Syuni (all from Michigan University) were held at the universities of Chicago (2000), Michigan (2002), Minnesota (2004) and in Salzburg, Austria (2005). Paul Poghosian (philosophy, NY University) will join the group for the 5th meeting. This year’s meeting is titled Genocide’s Borders, Goals, History and its Peoples. The three-day get-together will kick off with an open sitting on May 14 during which representatives of the hosting university will answer the audience’s questions, reports the Azg newspaper.