Back	At the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures: How Did the Great Depression Affect Turkey? Prof. Seyfettin Gürsel, from the School of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Galatasaray University, will be our guest speaker, at the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures, this June. In his presentation titled, Turkish Economy During the Great Depression, Gürsel will give us a macro-economist's analysis of the Depression, which struck hard at capitalist countries in the beginning of the 1930s, and examine Turkey's economic situation during those years.The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, June 2, 2004, at 6:30 p.m. Prof. Gürsel explains that although the economic slump hit the West hard, it left Turkey relatively unscathed. "In the industrialized West, both economic output and prices plummeted while unemployment rose to unprecedented heights," he says. "But when we examine whether the economic mechanisms and processes which triggered the slump in the Western world existed in Turkey as well, we come up with quite a different picture." After graduating from the School of Economics and the Institute of Political Science at the University of Grenoble, Prof. Seyfettin Gürsel obtained a master's degree and a PhD. in Economics from the University of Nanterre in Paris. Gürsel, who is a founding member of the Turkish Social, Economic and Political Research Foundation, (TÜSES), has written several books and articles - published both in Turkey and abroad - on the economic history, economic policies, political economy and labor economics of the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey. For more information on this free lecture offered by the Museum, please call, (212) 334 22 70.