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"--

Intro -- 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.

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