- Summary
- "The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey over the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks with Armenian ancestry soon re-awakened to their heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamized and Turkified, and on the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. At last, the silence had been broken: there was now a public debate about the extermination and the confiscation of Armenian property. Vicken Cheterian's 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 result of this amnesia was, Cheterian argues, "a century of genocide." Many Turkish intellectuals now acknowledge that the nation collectively paid a price by forgetting such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities--such as 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Cheterian, Vicken, author.
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015
- Locale
- Turkey
- Contents
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1. 'We are all Hrant Dink, We are all Armenian': The sacrifice
2. Crime without Punishment
3. Oblivion
4. Writing as Resistance
5. Decade of Terrorism
6. A Revolutionary Act
7. Re-Awakening : The Struggle for Memory and Democracy
8. One Hundred Years of Whispers
9. Memories of the Land
10. The Owner of the Turkish Presidential Palace
11. Kurds : From Perpetrator to Victim
12. Continuous War
13. Consequences.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.
1. 'We are all Hrant Dink, We are all Armenian': The sacrifice -- 2. Crime without Punishment -- 3. Oblivion -- 4. Writing as Resistance -- 5. Decade of Terrorism -- 6. A Revolutionary Act -- 7. Re-Awakening : The Struggle for Memory and Democracy -- 8. One Hundred Years of Whispers -- 9. Memories of the Land -- 10. The Owner of the Turkish Presidential Palace -- 11. Kurds : From Perpetrator to Victim -- 12. Continuous War -- 13. Consequences.
