The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History

by Talin Suciyan

Overview

After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities. Living under heavy censorship, and in an atmosphere of official denial that the deaths were a genocide, how did Turkish Armenians record their own history? Here, Talin Suciyan explores the life experienced by Turkey's Armenian communities as Turkey's great modernisation project of the 20th century gathered pace.Suciyan achieves this through analysis of remarkable new primary material: Turkish state archives, minutes of the Armenian National Assembly, a kaleidoscopic series of personal diaries, memoirs and oral histories, various Armenian periodicals such as newspapers, yearbooks and magazines, as well as statutes and laws which led to the continuing persecution of Armenians. The first history of its kind, The Armenians in Modern Turkey is a fresh contribution to the history of modern Turkey and the Armenian experience there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788310918
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/2017
Series:	Library of Ottoman Studies
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Talin Suciyan completed her PhD at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich where she is currently an assistant professor (Akademische Raetin Auf Zeit) at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Preface xiii

Transliteration System xv

Note on Transliteration xvii

List of Abbreviations xix

Introduction 1

1 Social Conditions of Armenians Remaining in Istanbul and in the Provinces 34

2 The Legal Context 91

3 State Surveillance and Anti-Armenian Campaigns 126

4 The Patriarchal Election Crisis: 1944-50 169

Conclusion 198

Notes 203

Bibliography 259

Index 273