TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akçam,Taner
TI  - From empire to republic: Turkish nationalism and the Armenian Genocide 
SN  - 184277526x (hbk)
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Zed, Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - History
KW  - Turkey
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Relations
KW  - Armenia (Republic)
KW  - Armenian Genocide
N1  - Includes bibliography and index; What are Turkey's fundamental problems? : a model for understanding Turkey today -- A theoretical approach to understanding Turkish national identity -- Some aspects of Turkish national identity and the Armenian Genocide -- The homogenizing and ethnic cleansing of Anatolia -- The decision for genocide in light of Ottoman-Turkish documents -- The treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne: an alternative perspective -- The causes and effects of making Turkish history taboo -- The Genocide and Turkey -- Some theoretical thoughts on the obstacles to Armenian-Turkish reconciliation
N2  - Summary: The murder of more than one million Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1915 has been acknowledged as genocide. Yet almost 100 years later, these crimes remain unrecognized by the Turkish state. This book is the first attempt by a Turk to understand the genocide from a perpetrator's, rather than victim's, perspective, and to contextualize the events of 1915 within Turkey's political history and western
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