HALIL BERKTAY, Associate Professor of History, and also Program Coordinator for both History and Turkish Studies, at Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey), was ASP Visiting Scholar during Winter 07 and taught a mini-course on Turkish nationalism in the department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Berktay's research interests include the initial construction of Turkish national memory in the early 20th century; the role of ethnic cleansings, atrocities and genocides in revolutions and nation-building; the construction of national forgetting, self-exoneration or denial (with special emphasis on the Armenian genocide of 1915). His publications include three books, two edited books, plus numerous articles (including some in English, German and Hungarian as well as many in Turkish).