Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 273 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350220263
Content:
What are Turkey's fundamental problems? : a model for understanding Turkey today -- A theoretical approach to understanding Turkish national identity -- Some aspects of Turkish national identity and the Armenian Genocide -- The homogenizing and ethnic cleansing of Anatolia -- The decision for genocide in light of Ottoman-Turkish documents -- The treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne: an alternative perspective -- The causes and effects of making Turkish history taboo -- The Genocide and Turkey -- Some theoretical thoughts on the obstacles to Armenian-Turkish reconciliation.
Content:
The murder of more than one million Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1915 has been acknowledged as genocide. Yet almost 100 years later, these crimes remain unrecognized by the Turkish state. This book is the first attempt by a Turk to understand the genocide from a perpetrator's, rather than victim's, perspective, and to contextualize the events of 1915 within Turkey's political history and western regional policies. Turkey today is in the midst of a tumultuous transition, but until it confronts its past and present violations of human rights, it will never be a truly democratic nation. This book explores the sources of the Armenian genocide, how Turks today view it, the meanings of Turkish and Armenian identity, and how the long legacy of western intervention in the region has suppressed reform, rather than promoted democracy.--From publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848130661
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842775264
Additional Edition:
ISBN 184277526X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1842775278
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842775271
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842775264
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Akçam, Taner, 1953- From empire to republic London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 ISBN 9781842775264
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350220263
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