Denial of Violence
Subtitle: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 03, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780199334209
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009