Collective and state violence in Turkey : the construction of a national identity from empire to nation-state /
edited by Stephan H. Astourian and Raymond H. Kévorkian.
- pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century-from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today-but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence. In particular, the construction of a Muslim-Turkish identity has been achieved in part by designating "internal enemies" at whom public hatred can be directed. This volume provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of such violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation's very sense of itself"--
9781789204506
2020016083
Political violence--Turkey. Violence--Turkey. Nationalism--History.--Turkey Ethnic conflict--History.--Turkey Minorities--History.--Turkey Minorities--Crimes against--Turkey. Armenian massacres, 1915-1923--Influence. Identification (Religion)--Political aspects--History.--Turkey