Open wounds : Armenians, Turks and a century of genocide /
"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 the...
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2015
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: 'WE ARE ALL HRANT DINK, WE ARE ALL ARMENIAN': THE SACRIFICE; 'Jesus Christ was the First Socialist'; Agos, a new type of publication; The Gökçen Controversy; 2: CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT; The Armenian Plateau without Armenians; Failure to Reform; Armenians: Merchants and Peasants; Internationalisation of the 'Armenian Question'; 3: OBLIVION; The Official Turkish Thesis on 1915; Nutuk-What Mustafa Kemal said about the Armenians; The Forgotten Genocide.
- Denial by Turkish Intellectuals and LeftistsHitler Remembers the Armenians; The Negation Industry; 4: WRITING AS RESISTANCE; Fifty Years of Silence; From Memory to History Writing; German Responsibility; The Genocide of the Armenians and the United Nations; Encyclopaedic Work; 5: DECADE OF TERRORISM; From Bank Ottoman to Operation Nemesis; 6: A REVOLUTIONARY ACT; The Human Rights Defender; Breaking the Taboo; An Intellectual Journey; 7: RE-AWAKENINGTHE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY AND DEMOCRACY; Things Falling Apart; EU Association and AKP Coming to Power; Timid Dialogue; Leaving History to Historians.
- Istanbul Discusses the GenocideApology campaign; 8: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WHISPERS; Forced Conversions in the Ottoman Empire; Forced Conversions and the Armenian Genocide; Survivors, Converts, Crypto-Christians; Hemshins, Muslim Armenian-Speakers; Dersim; Muslim, Christian, Crypto-Armenians; Discussing Islamised Armenians; 9: MEMORIES OF THE LAND; Anjar, the Only Armenian Village of Lebanon; Aintab; Murad's Story5; From Caesarea to Diyarbakir; Renovation of Aghtamar; Ani, capital of melancholia; 10: THE OWNER OF THE TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PALACE; Property Confiscation; Continuum.
- Confiscated CapitalDestruction; Return of Property, One by One; A new wave of conversions; 11: KURDS: FROM PERPETRATOR TO VICTIM; Kurdish Role in the Genocide; 'Happy is He Who Calls Himself a Turk'; Kurdish Nationalism; A New Kurdish Policy; 12: CONTINUOUS WAR; Turkish Responsibility; Armenian-Turkish Relations; Azerbaijani Identity and State Ideology; Destruction of Armenian Monuments in Azerbaijan; The Protocols; The Gordian Knot between Ankara and Yerevan; Erdoğan's Condolences; 13: CONSEQUENCES; Denial, Historic Research and Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Expression.
- Lost in a Deep StateNOTES; 1. 'WE ARE ALL HRANT DINK, WE ARE ALL ARMENIAN': THE SACRIFICE; 2. CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT; 3. OBLIVION; 4. WRITING AS RESISTANCE; 5. DECADE OF TERRORISM; 6. A REVOLUTIONARY ACT; 7. RE-AWAKENING: THE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY AND DEMOCRACY; 8. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WHISPERS; 9. MEMORIES OF THE LAND; 10. THE OWNER OF THE TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PALACE; 11. KURDS: FROM PERPETRATOR TO VICTIM; 12. CONTINUOUS WAR; 13. CONSEQUENCES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
