Denial of violence : Ottoman past, Turkish present and collective violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 /
Göçek, Fatma MügeAuthor
To this day, the Turkish state officially denies that what happened to the Armenians in 1915 was genocide, while the Western scholarly community is almost in full agreement that what happened to the forcefully deported Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was genocide, in which approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished. This book studies why denial of collective violence persists in Turkish state and society.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On the denial of collective violence -- Imperial denial of origins of violence, 1789-1907 -- Young Turk denial of the act of violence, 1908-1918 -- Early republican denial of actors of violence, 1919-1973 -- Late republican denial of responsibility for violence, 1974-2009.
To this day, the Turkish state officially denies that what happened to the Armenians in 1915 was genocide, while the Western scholarly community is almost in full agreement that what happened to the forcefully deported Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was genocide, in which approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished. This book studies why denial of collective violence persists in Turkish state and society.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 24, 2014).
Armenians
Ethnic conflict
Political violence