Collective and state violence in Turkey : the construction of a national identity from empire to nation-state
Stephan H. Astourian (Editor), Raymond H. Kévorkian (Editor)
"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"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2021
Berghahn, New York, 2021