"Sabiha Gökcen's 80-year-old secret" : Kemalist nation formation and the Ottoman Armenians
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2010

This dissertation explores the socio-historical forces that account for the ongoing Turkish denial of the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians for ninety-five years after the event. I argue that because of the temporal proximity of and the institutional continuities between the two events - Armenian deportations and massacres (1915 -1916) and the rise of the new Turkish nation-state with a legendary War of Independence led by Atatürk (1919-1922) - "Turkishness" invented by the Kemalist elites durin