Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Collective and State Violence in Turkey

The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State

Edited by: Stephan Astourian and Raymond Kévorkian

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789204513

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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.

Author / Editor information

Stephan Astourian is the William Saroyan Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in Armenian and Caucasian history in its Department of History.

Raymond Kévorkian is a historian, Director of research emeritus at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis), and President of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation (Erevan). He is the author of works on the Ottoman Armenian society, especially on mass violence.

Stephan Astourian is the William Saroyan Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in Armenian and Caucasian history in its Department of History.

Reviews

“This excellent volume combines cutting-edge work from some of the most prominent experts on mass violence in Turkey with a clear conceptual through-line.” • Matthias Bjørnlund, Danish Institute for Study Abroad

“This work represents a solid endeavor that brings together multi-disciplinary research on various aspects of mass violence in Turkey and ties mass violence to national-identity construction from the late Ottoman period to the present day.” • Janet Klein, University of Akron

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Raymond H. Kévorkian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Case Studies in the Ottoman Empire
CHAPTER 1 On the Genealogy of the Armenian–Turkish Conflict, Sultan Abdülhamid and the Armenian Massacres Stephan H. Astourian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
CHAPTER 2 The Long Assyrian Genocide David Gaunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER 3 The Hamidian Massacres: Gendered Violence, Biopolitics and National Honour Ayşenur Korkmaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
CHAPTER 4 On Collective Responsibility in the Extermination of Ottoman Armenians Raymond H. Kévorkian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
CHAPTER 5 The Final Phase: The Cleansing of Armenian and Greek Survivors, 1919–1922 Raymond H. Kévorkian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
CHAPTER 6 Collective State Violence against G reeks in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1821–1923 George N. Shirinian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
PART II Case Studies in Republican Turkey
CHAPTER 7 The Attempted Pogrom against the Jews of Thrace, June–July 1934 Rifat N. Bali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER 8 A History of Armenians Remaining in Turkey Survival and Denial Talin Suciyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
CHAPTER 9 The Events of 6–7 September 1955 Greeks, Armenians and Jews within the Context of the Strategies of the Turkish Republic Dilek Güven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
CHAPTER 10 State Violence in ‘Kurdistan’ Mesut Yeğen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
CHAPTER 11 Physical and Epistemic Violence against Alevis in Modern Turkey Markus Dressler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
CHAPTER 12 Inscriptions of Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Memory Narrations from Dersim Annika Törne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
CHAPTER 13 The Yazidis: Resilience in Times of Violence Caroline Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
PART III Thematic Essays
CHAPTER 14 ‘Who Did This to Us?’ Blaming the Enemies as Part of Turkey’s Authoritarian Political Culture Uğur Derin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
CHAPTER 15 Nationalism and History, Masks of Violence Etienne Copeaux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
CHAPTER 16 Public Violence in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century Onwards Hans-Lukas Kieser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	480
CHAPTER 17 Structures of Power, Coercion and Violence in Republican Turkey Hamit Bozarslan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	504
Afterword: Shapes, Legitimation, and Legacies of Violence in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey Stephan H. Astourian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	568

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 750
Keywords: History (General); Genocide History; Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published: November 1, 2020
ISBN: 9781789204513