Monday, February 27, 2017

Kamuran Gürün - The Armenian File


Mr. Kamuran Gürün was born in Istanbul in 1924. After graduating in political sciences from Ankara University, he joined the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1948. He has served in Bonn, London and, as ambassador, in Athens and Bucharest. He has also been Turkey's representatives at the OECD and the Secretary-General of CENTO. He became under-secretary at the Ministry of Foreing Affairs in 1980 and retired in 1982. As a member of the Turkish Historical Society. Mr. Gürün now divides his time between historical research and lecturing at Ankara University. He is the author of several books and articles. He is married.

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The above text is verbatim from the rear cover of a book he authored,
"The Armenian File".

Republished 2001
Rustum Bookshop, Nicosia, Turkey

ISBN: 975-97030-4-1

The body of the work, aside from his own personal observations, cites other people's articles, correspondences, books, and such exclusively.

I am blogging this for the simple reason that there is precious little regarding him on the net, and I have been reading it, off and on, over the past few weeks. His Wikipedia page says not much more than the back cover. Of course, the page includes the usual Wikipedia cry for lack of source/citations. So here is my crumb.

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