The Center for Turkish Studies is located in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and provide academic coordination for the Contemporary Turkish Studies Program at PSU and serve as the main venue for institutional collaboration with universities in Turkey.
Our Turkish Center is an interdisciplinary institution that brings together faculty and students from across campus and other institutions of higher education throughout the United States, Turkey, and Cyprus. Thanks to renewed agreements with institutions of higher learning in Turkey, ongoing faculty and student exchange and collaborations are supported by Portland State University's rich course offerings and research activities that promote the internationally recognized achievement of academic research and educational goals in economics, history, politics, and contemporary Turkish language and literature.