The Armenians in modern Turkey : post-genocide society, politics and history / Talin Suciyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suciyan, Talin, 1978- author.

Series:

Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 48.

Library of Ottoman studies ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenians--Turkey--History--20th century.

Armenians.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Turkey--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Turkey.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 280 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Summary:

After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenians lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities. Living in the context of pervasive denial, how did Armenians remaining in Turkey record their own history? Here, Talin Suciyan explores the life experienced by these Armenian communities as Turkey's modernisation project of the twentieth century gathered pace. Suciyan achieves this through analysis of remarkable new primary material: Turkish state archives, minutes of the Armenian National Assembly, a kaleidoscopic series of personal diaries, memoirs and oral histories, various Armenian periodicals such as newspapers, yearbooks and magazines, as well as statutes and laws which led to the continuing persecution of Armenians. The first history of its kind, The Armenians in Modern Turkey is a fresh contribution to the history of modern Turkey and the Armenian experience there. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Social Conditions of Armenians Remaining in Istanbul and in the Provinces 34

2 The Legal Context 91

3 State Surveillance and Anti-Armenian Campaigns 126

4 The Patriarchal Election Crisis: 1944-50 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 259-271) and index.

ISBN:

9781784531713

1784531715

OCLC:

930713865