Armenians in Modern Turkey

£29.69

Armenians in Modern Turkey

Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History

European history Middle Eastern history Social and cultural history Genocide and ethnic cleansing Ethnic studies Social and cultural anthropology Political structures: democracy Political control and freedoms War and defence operations

Author: Talin Suciyan

Dinosaur mascot

Language: English

Published by: I.B. Tauris

Published on: 28th October 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 304 pages

ISBN: 9780857729729


After the Armenian genocide of 1915

In which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities. Living under heavy censorship, and in an atmosphere of official denial that the deaths were a genocide, how did Turkish Armenians record their own history?

Here, Talin Suciyan explores the life experienced by Turkey's Armenian communities as Turkey's great modernisation project of the 20th century gathered pace. Suciyan achieves this through analysis of remarkable new primary material: Turkish state archives, minutes of the Armenian National Assembly, a kaleidoscopic series of personal diaries, memoirs and oral histories, various Armenian periodicals such as newspapers, yearbooks and magazines, as well as statutes and laws which led to the continuing persecution of Armenians.

The first history of its kind, The Armenians in Modern Turkey is a fresh contribution to the history of modern Turkey and the Armenian experience there.

Show moreShow less