Open wounds : Armenians, Turks and a century of genocide / Vicken Cheterian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheterian, Vicken, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dink, Hrant, 1954-2007--Assassination.

Dink, Hrant.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Influence.

Genocide--Political aspects--Turkey.

Genocide.

Memory--Political aspects--Turkey.

Memory.

Armenians--Government policy--Turkey.

Armenians.

Minorities--Government policy--Turkey.

Minorities.

Turkey--Ethnic relations.

Turkey.

Turkey--Politics and government--20th century.

Turkey--Politics and government--1980-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey over the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks with Armenian ancestry soon re-awakened to their heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamized and Turkified, and on the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. At last, the silence had been broken: there was now a public debate about the extermination and the confiscation of Armenian property. Vicken Cheterian's Open Wounds explains how, after the First World War, the new Turkish Republic forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands--a process to which the international community turned a blind eye. The result of this amnesia was, Cheterian argues, "a century of genocide." Many Turkish intellectuals now acknowledge that the nation collectively paid a price by forgetting such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities--such as the Kurds today--nor have an open and democratic society without addressing the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"We are all Hrant Dink, we are all Armenian"

Crime without punishment

Oblivion

Writing as resistance

Decade of terrorism

A revolutionary act

Re-awakening : the struggle for memory and democracy

One hundred years of whispers

Memories of the land

The owner of the Turkish presidential palace

Kurds : from perpetrator to victim

Continuous war

Consequences.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-026351-2

OCLC:

1290093836