Turkish Historical Society Gets A New PresidentPresident of the Turkish Historical Society (TTK) Prof. Dr. Yusuf Halaçoğlu has been removed from his post.


Last year on August 19, Halaçoğlu had participated in a conference at Kayseri in Central Turkey about “Avşar people in Turkish History and Culture” and claimed that Kurds living in Turkey were Turkmen and Kurdish Alevis living in Turkey were Armenian descendants.

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