Ümit Kurt is a historian who studies the modern Middle East. Many of his publications are about the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

. In 2016, he received a PhD in Armenian genocide studies from

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research uni ...

. Kurt is a Turkish citizen ethnically of Kurdish and

Arab Arabs (, , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...

origin; he was born and grew up in

Gaziantep Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...

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Ümit Kurt - New Lines Magazine
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics from Gaziantep Historians of the Armenian genocide Clark University alumni 21st-century Turkish historians 21st-century Turkish male writers Turkish male writers {{Historian-stub