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Authors
Idil P. Izmirli, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA
Victor Ostapchuk, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada
András Riedlmayer, Aga Khan Program, Harvard University, USA
Maria Sonevytsky, Department of Music, Bard College, USA
Signatories
Mohamed Abd El Hady, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt
Gábor Ágoston, Department of History, Georgetown University, USA
Şener Aktürk, Department of International Relations, Koç University, Turkey
Mikhail Alexseev, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, USA
Mark Andryczyk, Ukrainian Studies Program, Columbia University
Walter G. Andrews, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, USA
Olga Andriewsky, Department of History, Trent University, Canada
Anne Applebaum, Independent scholar, journalist, and writer, Poland and USA
Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
Nasrin Askari, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alireza Asgharzadeh, Department of Sociology, York University, Canada
Filiz Tutku Aydın, Independent scholar, Canada
Deniz Balgamış, Center for Turkish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Eliot Bates, Music Department, University of Birmingham, UK
Michael L. Bates, The American Numismatic Society, USA
Mark R. Beissinger, Department of Politics, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, USA
Natalya Belitser, Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy, Ukraine
Abderrahim Benhadda, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines-Rabat, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Morocco
Karel Berkhoff, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands
Kemal Beydilli, Department of History, İstanbul 29 Mayıs University, Turkey
Anastasia Bezverkha, Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Ukraine
Svitlana Bilyayeva, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Stephen Blank, American Foreign Policy Council, USA
Doug Blum, Department of Political Science, Providence College, USA
Andrea F. Bohlman, Department of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Philip V. Bohlman, Department of Music, University of Chicago, USA; Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Hannover, Germany
Günhan Börekçi, Department of History, İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey
Viktor Brekhunenko, Institute of Archaeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Laurence Broers, Centre for the Contemporary Central Asia and Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, UK
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Department of Linguistics, University of Milan, Italy
Wayles Browne, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University, USA
Amila Buturović, Department of Humanities, York University, Canada
Miquel Cabal-Guarro, Centre for Sociolinguistics and Communication, University of Barcelona, Spain
Matei Cazacu, Centre d’études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France
Murat Çemrek, Department of International Relations, Selçuk University, Turkey; Eurasian Research Institute, Ahmet Yesevi University, Kazakhstan
Vitaly Chernetsky, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, USA
David Christian, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia
Anna Cienciala, Department of History, University of Kansas, USA
Hakkı Erdem Çıpa, Department of History, University of Michigan, USA
Murat Çizakça, INCEIF-The Global University of Islamic Finance, Malaysia
Ferenc Csirkés, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA
Andriy Danylenko, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Pace University, USA
Mehmet Darakcioglu, Independent scholar, USA
Tülün Değirmenci, Department of Art History, Pamukkale University, Turkey
Turgut Demirtepe, Institute for Security Studies, Turkey
Nadir Devlet, International Relations Department, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey
Volodymyr Dibrova, Slavic Department, Harvard University, USA
Taras Dobko, Senior Vice-Rector, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Fred M. Donner, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA
Iryna Driga, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Director, Center for International Studies, Odesa I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Marta Dyczok, Department of History and Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Mykola Dyedkov, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Zaporizhzhya National Technical University, Ukraine
Süer Eker, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Başkent University, Turkey
Feridun M. Emecen, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Letters; Department of History, İstanbul 29 Mayıs University, Turkey
Pınar Emiralioğlu, History Department, Sam Houston State University, USA
Özer Ergenç, Department of History, Bilkent University, Turkey
Julie Fedor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Yaroslav Fedoruk, Institute of Archaeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Emine Fetvacı, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University, USA
William Fierman, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, USA
Carter V. Findley, Department of History, The Ohio State University, USA
Peter Finke, Co-Director, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Caroline Finkel, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Rory Finnin, Department of Slavonic Studies; Director, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Alan Fisher, Department of History, Michigan State University, USA
Cornell H. Fleischer, Department of History, University of Chicago, USA
Michael S. Flier, Department of Linguistics; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA
Beatrice Forbes Manz, Department of History, Tufts University, USA
Lucyna Gebert, Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani ed Interculturali, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy
Tasin Gemil, Institute of Turkology and Central Asian Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Mehmet Genç, Department of History, İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey
Paul Goble, Institute of World Politics, USA
Peter B. Golden, Department of History, Rutgers University, USA
Glenda Goodman, Department of History, University of Southern California, USA
Dmitry Gorenburg, Editor, Problems of Post-Communism, Davis Center, Harvard University, USA
Andrea Graziosi, Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, Italy
Gottfried Hagen, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, USA
Mark von Hagen, Department of History, Arizona State University, USA
Lubomyr Hajda, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA
William Hale, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Oleksander Halenko, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Randall Hansen, Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Jens Hanssen, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada
Adriana Helbig, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Patricia Herlihy, Department of History, Brown University, USA
Dorothea Heuschert-Laage, Independent scholar, Germany
Colin Heywood, Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull, UK
Bill Hickman, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Thomas Hilder, Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Renata Holod, History of Art Department; Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mieste Hotopp-Riecke, Director, Institute for Caucasica-, Tatarica- and Turkestan Studies, Germany
Laura Hostetler, Chair, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Alexandra Hrycak, Sociology Department, Reed College, USA
Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Nygmet Ibadildin, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Halil İnalcık, Bilkent University, Turkey; University of Chicago, USA
Adrian Ivakhiv, Environmental Program; Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA
John (Ivan) Jaworsky, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Kerstin S. Jobst, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, University of Vienna, Austria
Juliet Johnson, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Canada
Turhan Kaçar, Department of History, Pamukkale University, Turkey
Cemal Kafadar, Department of History, Harvard University, USA
Andreas Kappeler, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, University of Vienna, Austria
Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Department of History; Roshan Center for Persian Studies; University of Maryland, USA
Osman Karatay, Institute for Turkic World Studies, Ege University, Turkey
Kemal H. Karpat, Department of History; Center for Turkish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dimitris Kastritsis, School of History, University of St Andrews, Scotland/UK
Hasan Kayalı, Department of History, University of California, San Diego, USA
Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Institute of Turkology, Freie Universität Berlin/Free University Berlin, Germany
Lucy Kerner, Center For European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA International Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Olga Kesarchuk, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Khodarkovsky, Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago, USA
Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre and Slavic Resources Coordinator, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto, Canada
Machiel Kiel, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Turkey; University of Utrecht, The Netherlends
Hakan Kırımlı, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Director, Institute of History, University of Warsaw; Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Katja Kolcio, Dance Department, Wesleyan University, USA
Natalie Kononenko, Kule Folkore Centre, University of Alberta, Canada
Bohdan Kordan, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Taras Koznarsky, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Canada
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada
Maryna Kravets, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada
Natalia Królikowska, Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
Tomila Lankina, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Edward J. Lazzerini, Central Eurasian Studies Department, Indiana University, USA
Joo-Yup Lee, Independent scholar, Korea
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Department of History, Pace University, USA
Gary Leiser, Independent scholar, USA
Lubomyr Luciuk, Department of Political Science, Royal Military College of Canada
Peter McMurray, Department of Music, Harvard University, USA
Paul Robert Magocsi, Department of History; Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Tadeusz Majda, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Philip Mansel, Institute of Historical Research, University of London; Royal Asiatic Society; Royal Historical Society, UK
Kimberly Marten, Department of Political Science, Barnard College; Deputy Director for Development, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, USA
Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Rudi Matthee, Department of History, University of Delaware, USA
Mihai Maxim, Department of History, Fatih University, Turkey
Ethan Menchinger, Fellow,Transregionale Studien-Berlin, Germany
Sarianna Metso, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada
Junko Miyawaki-Okada, Independent scholar, Japan
Marina Mogilner, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Michael Moser, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
Alexander Motyl, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Stephennie Mulder, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dmytro Myeshkov, Department of History, University of Freiburg, Germany
Emily Neumeier, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nuray Ocaklı, Department of History, Bilkent University, Turkey
Hidehiro Okada, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Alexander Osipov, European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany
Huseyin Oylupinar, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada; Inter-Ethnic and Cross-Cultural Relations Research Center, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Mehmet Öz, Department of History, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Altay Tayfun Özcan, Department of History, Dumlupinar University, Turkey
Sezai Özçelik, Department of International Relations, Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey
Güner Özkan, Department of International Relations, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey
Yücel Öztürk, Ottoman History Department, Sakarya University, Turkey
Oxana Pachlovska, Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani ed Interculturali, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy
Şevket Pamuk, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Viorel Panaite, Department of History, University of Bucharest; Institute of South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Romania
Oya Pancaroğlu, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Christina Paschyn, Department of Journalism, Northwestern University in Qatar
Marko Pavlyshyn, Director, Mykola Zerov Centre for Ukrainian Studies, Monash University, Australia
Andrew Peacock, School of History, University of St. Andrews, UK
Leslie P. Peirce, Department of History, New York University, USA
Zoe Petre, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Romania
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Department of History, Northwestern University, USA
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, USA
Serhii Plokhii, Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Department of History, Harvard University, USA
Gennadi Pobereżny,Research Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA
Leonid Polyakov, Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, Ukraine
Maria Popova, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Canada
Natalia Pylypiuk, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT, USA
Danylo Radivilov, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Evgeni Radushev, Department of History, Bilkent University, Turkey
Peter Reddaway, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA
Tanya Richardson, Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
William Jay Risch, Department of History, Georgia College, USA
Malte Rolf, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, University of Bamberg, Germany
Robert Romanchuk, Department of Modern Languages, Florida State University, USA
András Róna-Tas, University of Szeged; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Azade-Ayse Rorlich, Department of History, University of Southern California, USA
Leonid Rudnytzky, Central and Eastern European Studies, La Salle University, USA
Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA
Valery Rybalkin, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Kahraman Şakul, Department of History, İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey
Özdem Sanberk, President, USAK/ISRO (International Strategic Research Organisation), Turkey
Roman Senkus, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Uli Schamiloglu, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, USA
John Schoeberlein, Department of Anthropology, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Dittmar Schorkowitz, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Martin Schulze Wessel, Chairman, German Historical Association; Historisches Seminar, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Roman Serbyn, Département d’histoire, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Alla Serediak, Department of Local History, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Vildane Shabanova Alieva (Özkan), Department of Sociology, Uludağ University, Turkey
Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, Ukraine
Yuriy Shchurko, Theological Faculty, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Oxana Shevel, Department of Political Science, Tufts University, USA
Sławomir Sierakowski, Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw, Poland
Amy Singer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Timothy Snyder, Department of History, Yale University, USA
Bruna Soravia, Department of Political Science, Luiss University, Italy
Jeffrey B. Spurr, Aga Khan Program, Harvard University, USA
Myron O. Stachiw, Department of Art, Architecture, and Art History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Jaroslav Stetkevych, Department of Near Eastern Languages Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA
Maria Subtelny, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada
Emil Suciu, Independent scholar, Romania
Viktor Susak, Department of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Frank E. Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Rein Taagepera, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
Baki Tezcan, Department of History, University of California-Davis, USA
Stephan Theilig, Vice Director, Institute for Caucasica-, Tatarica- and Turkestan Studies, Germany
Ihor Todorov, Department of International Relations, Donetsk National University, Ukraine
Stefan Troebst, Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University, Germany
Mehmet Tütüncü, Research Centre for the Turkish and Arabic World, The Netherlands
Oksana Tyshchenko-Monastyrska, Institute of Linguistics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Greta Uehling, Program in International and Comparative Studies, University of Michigan, USA
Andreas Umland, Department of Political Science, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Ukraine
Michael Ursinus, Head, Department of Islamic Studies (Ottoman Studies), Heidelberg University, Germany
Stephen Velychenko, Research Fellow, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Kris Wawrzyniak, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada
Brian Williams, Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA
Gavin Williams, Department of Music, Cambridge University, UK
Andrew Wilson, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London, UK
Oleh Wolowyna, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Carole Woodall, Department of History and Women’s and Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, USA
Renée Worringer, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada
Nur Yalman, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, USA
Tatiana Yankelevich (Bonner), Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA
Murat Yaşar, Department of History, SUNY Oswego, USA
Ali Yaycıoğlu, Department of History, Stanford University, USA
Sara Nur Yıldız, School of History, St. Andrews University, UK; Orient Institut-Turkey, Turkey
Fehmi Yılmaz, History Department, İstanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Ayşegül Yılmaz, Department of Tourism Administration, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Oleksandr Zheliba, Historical-Juridical Faculty, Nizhyn Gogol State University, Ukraine
Grażyna Zając, Department of Turkish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Slavoj Žižek, Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, UK; Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Statement of Concerned Scholars on the Current Predicament of the Crimean Tatars 