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Oxford University Press, USA
Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
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The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks soon re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents
were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last the silence had been broken. 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 price for this amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian
argues, a century of genocide. Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities -- like the Kurds today -- nor have an open and democratic society without addressing
the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide.
Author: Vicken Cheterian
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.42w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780190263508
were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last the silence had been broken. 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 price for this amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian
argues, a century of genocide. Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities -- like the Kurds today -- nor have an open and democratic society without addressing
the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide.
Author: Vicken Cheterian
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.42w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780190263508
About the Author
Vicken Cheterian lectures at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. As a journalist and historian, he has worked on contemporary conflicts in the Middle East and post-Soviet space, publishing widely in Le Monde Diplomatique, Al-Hayat, and Open Democracy. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier.
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