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Open Wounds - Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide (Hardcover)
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Open Wounds - Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide (Hardcover)
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The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a
high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited
the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians.
Many Turks soon re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting
on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified,
and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories
secret. There was public debate around Armenian property
confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the
minorities. At last the silence had been broken. Open Wounds
explains how, after the First World War, the new Turkish Republic
forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of
Armenians, from their historic lands -- a process to which the
international community turned a blind eye. The price for this
amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian argues, "a century of genocide."
Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price 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 the original sin on which the state was founded: the
Armenian Genocide.
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