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Open Wounds - Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide (Paperback)
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Open Wounds - Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide (Paperback)
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The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the
high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited
the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians.
Many Turks subsequently reawakened to their Armenian heritage, in
the process reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly
Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering they endured to keep
their stories secret. There was public debate about Armenian
property confiscated by the Turkish state and books were published
about the extermination of the minorities. The silence had been
broken. After the First World War, Turkey forcibly erased the
memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their
historic lands, to which the international community turned a blind
eye. The price for this amnesia was, Cheterian argues, 'a century
of genocide'.Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price a society
must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that
Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities -
like the Kurds today - nor have an open and democratic society
without addressing its original sin: the Armenian Genocide, on
which the Republic was founded.
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