The Institute of Turkish Studies records document the founding, administration, and grant funding activities of the ITS. Materials include grant applications and reports, correspondence, financial records, board meeting minutes, publications and directories, and press.

Grants materials cover a wide variety of topics, including Turkish geography, politics, economy, culture, and history. Grant applications include a narrative explaining the project as well as what the funding would be used for. These records provide a rich window into the field of Turkish Studies in the 1990s and 2000s. While the ITS has been implicated in Armenian genocide denialism and debates about Turkish politics, the grant files themselves seldom include research about Armenian history, Kurdish identity, or Turkish authoritarianism.

Administrative files document Turkish funding of the ITS, the institute's 501(c)(3) status, board meetings, the relationship to the Turkish goverment, and the move of ITS to Georgetown University's campus. Because there is only a small amount of correspondence, most documentation of ITS's decisions can be found in the board minutes.