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Open wounds : Armenians, Turks and a century of genocide

Cheterian, Vicken

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\"The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks soon re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last the silence had been broken. Open Wounds explains how, after the First World War, the new Turkish Republic forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands--a process to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian argues, 'a century of genocide.' Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities--like the Kurds today--nor have an open and democratic society without addressing the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Dink, Hrant, 1954-2007 Assassination. / Armenian massacres, 1915-1923. / Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 Influence. / Genocide Political aspects Turkey. / Memory Political aspects Turkey. / Armenians Government policy Turkey. / Minorities Government policy Turkey. / HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire. / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. / Turkey Ethnic relations. / Turkey Politics and government 20th century. / Turkey Politics and government 1980-
• ISBN: 9780190263508, 0190263504

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