Minutes: Joint TASSA Board and Executive Committee Meeting

Joint TASSA Board and Executive Committee Meeting was held on 3rd of February. The nominating committee is charged collecting nominations for the Board of Directors elections for the seats of Bulent Basol, Ayse Imrohoroglu, Fusun Ozguner, Selim Unlu whose terms are ending by the upcoming election. Elections to be held after the 2018 biannual conference in Boston.
A thorough discussion of TASSA’s mission and its position on various matters related to Turkey and the United States took place. The Board and Executive Committee members agreed that TASSA should continue its operations to strengthen the ties between scientists and scholars in Turkey and the United States. TASSA hopes the conditions in Turkey and the United States will return to normal when ideas and opinions can be freely exchanged.
The upcoming conference on June 2-3, 2018 at Boston University will be a good opportunity to allow differing views on matters relating to Turkey and the United States. The conference program committee and its chair Dr. Selim Unlu is charged with taking steps in putting together a conference program where officials, academicians, and scientists from Turkey and the United States are given an equal opportunity to express their opinions in a scientific setting. It was also proposed that the proceedings resulting from the conference should be sent for publication in an international scientific journal.