Turkey and the Armenian ghost : on the trail of the genocide / Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier ; foreword by Taner Akçam ; translated by Debbie Blythe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchand, Laure.

Perrier, Guillaume, author.

Contributor:

Blythe, Debbie, 1955- translator.

Akçam, Taner, 1953- writer of supplementary textual content.

Standardized Title:

Turquie et le fantôme arménien. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Historiography.

Armenians--Turkey--History.

Armenians.

Historiography.

Turkey.

History.

Genocide--Turkey.

Genocide.

Collective memory.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished. One hundred years later, Turkey continues to deny the slaughter of over a million Ottoman Armenians in 1915 and the following years. What sets the Armenian genocide apart from other mass atrocities is that the country responsible has never officially acknowledged its actions, and no individual has ever been brought to justice. In Turkey and the Armenian Ghost, a translation of the award-winning La Turquie et le fantome arménien, Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier visit historic sites and interview politicians, elderly survivors, descendants, authors, and activists in a quest for the hidden truth. Taking the reader into remote mountain regions, tiny hamlets, and the homes of traumatized victims of a deadly persecution that continues to this day, they reveal little-known aspects of the history and culture of a people who have been rendered invisible in their ancient homeland. Seeking to illuminate complex issues of blame and responsibility, guilt and innocence, the authors discuss the roles played in this drama by the "righteous Turks," the Kurds, the converts, the rebels, and the "leftovers of the sword." They also describe the struggle to have the genocide officially recognized in Turkey, France, and the United States. Arguing that this massive cover-up has had consequences for Turks as well as for Armenians, the authors point to a society sickened by a century of denial. "In the following pages, Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier lead us in search of an existence that has been reduced to non-existence. Holding up a mirror to our reality, they show us the traces of what no longer exists and remind us that, until we free ourselves from this communicative reality, this imaginary world where we are held hostage by our own illusions, we will never find peace." From the Foreword by Taner Akçam Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Marseille: Little Armenia 9

2 Armen Aroyan, Archeologist of the Genocide 22

3 Of Grandmothers and Grandchildren 35

4 Converts: The Hidden Armenians 47

5 Dersim: Land of Rebels 59

6 Genocide of the Stone 69

7 The Armenian Don Quixote 82

8 Vakif: The Last Village 89

9 Football Diplomacy 98

10 An Obsession with Denial 111

11 Sevag Balikçi: 1,500,000 + 2 121

12 Çankaya Palace: The Republic's Original Sin 129

13 "If You Destroy a Nest, You Can't Make It Your Own" 136

14 The Soul of the Resistance Movement 147

15 Hrant Dink: The Armenian and His Turkish Heirs 158

16 The Kurds: Pricking Turkey's Conscience 172

17 Death of a Sub-Prefect 185

18 The Righteous Turks 193.

Notes:

Translation of: La Turquie et le fantôme arménien.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-513) and index.

Other Format:

Marchand, Laure. Turquie et le fantôme arménien. English Turkey and the Armenian ghost.

ISBN:

9780773545496

0773545492

OCLC:

895338569