Collective and state violence in Turkey : the construction of a national identity from empire to nation-state

"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 Contents Foreword Introduction Part I — Case Studies in the Ottoman Empire Chapter 1 — On the Genealogy of the Armenian–Turkish Conflict, Sultan Abdülhamid and the Armenian Massacres Chapter 2 — The Long Assyrian Genocide Chapter 3 — The Hamidian Massacres: Gendered Violence, Biopolitics and National Honour Chapter 4 — On Collective Responsibility in the Extermination of Ottoman Armenians Chapter 5 — The Final Phase: The Cleansing of Armenian and Greek Survivors, 1919–1922 Chapter 6 — Collective State Violence against Greeks in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1821–1923 Part II — Case Studies in Republican Turkey Chapter 7 — The Attempted Pogrom against the Jews of Thrace, June–July 1934 Chapter 8 — A History of Armenians Remaining in Turkey: Survival and Denial Chapter 9 — The Events of 6–7 September 1955: Greeks, Armenians and Jews within the Context of the Strategies of the Turkish Republic Chapter 10 — State Violence in ‘Kurdistan’ Chapter 11 — Physical and Epistemic Violence against Alevis in Modern Turkey Chapter 12 — Inscriptions of Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Memory Narrations from Dersim Chapter 13 — The Yazidis: Resilience in Times of Violence Part III — Thematic Essays Chapter 14 — ‘Who Did This to Us?’: Blaming the Enemies as Part of Turkey’s Authoritarian Political Culture Chapter 15 — Nationalism and History, Masks of Violence Chapter 16 — Public Violence in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century Onwards Chapter 17 — Structures of Power, Coercion and Violence in Republican Turkey Afterword: Shapes, Legitimation, and Legacies of Violence in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey Index