The Armenian Genocide and Turkey: Public Memory and Institutionalized Denial eBook

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How is official denial of the Armenian genocide maintained in Turkey? In this book, Hakan Seckinelgin investigates the mechanisms by which denial of the events of 1915 are reproduced in official discourse, and the effect this has on Turkish citizens. Examining state education, media discourse, academic publications, as well as public events debating the Armenian genocide, the book argues that, at the public level, there exists a ‘grammar’ or ‘repertoire’ of denial in Turkey which regulates how the issue can be publicly conceptualised and understood. The book’s careful analysis examines the way that knowledge about the genocide is censored in Turkey, from the language that must be used to publicly discuss it, to the complex way in which selective knowledge and erased history is reproduced, from 1915 and subsequent generations until today. It argues that denialism has become important to a certain kind Turkish national identity and belonging – and suggests ways in which this relationship can be unpicked in future.

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The Armenian Genocide and Turkey: Public Memory and Institutionalized Denial 1st Edition is written by Hakan Seckinelgin and published by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Armenian Genocide and Turkey are 9780755653638, 0755653637 and the print ISBNs are 9780755653614, 0755653610.