num_pages: 288
description: Taner Akçam is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish government in 1915. This book discusses western political policies towards the region generally, and represents the first serious scholarly attempt to understand the Genocide from a perpetrator rather than victim perspective, and to contextualize those events within Turkey's political history. By refusing to acknowledge the fact of genocide, successive Turkish governments not only perpetuate massive historical injustice, but also pose a fundamental obstacle to Turkey's democratization today.
language: English
title: From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
titlecomplete: From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
genres: History, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Zed Books