The Armenian Genocide and Turkey

Public Memory and Institutionalized Denial

Hakan Seckinelgin

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English

I.B. Tauris
18 April 2024

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Political oppression & persecution

Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World

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.

By: Hakan Seckinelgin
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780755653614
ISBN 10: 0755653610
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hakan Seckinelgin is Reader in International Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the author of International Security, Conflict and Gender (2012), and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Civil Society.

Reviews for The Armenian Genocide and Turkey: Public Memory and Institutionalized Denial

This excellent book analyzes the significance of collective remembering and forgetting in modern Turkey; state and government actors employ manufactured public memories in social media and education to produce and maintain the denialist public discourse on the 1915 events. * Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor, University of Michigan, USA *