TY  - BOOK
AU  - Astourian,Stephan H.
AU  - Kévorkian,Raymond H.
TI  - Collective and state violence in Turkey: the construction of a national identity from empire to nation-state 
SN  - 9781789204506
AV  - HN656.5.Z9 V54 2020
U1  - 303.48/409561 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Violence
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnic conflict
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
KW  - Influence
KW  - Identification (Religion)
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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