Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory

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Kurdish memories of the Armenian Genocide challenge the systematic denialism established by the Turkish state structures and foster new possibilities of coming to terms with the past. This book examines Kurdish biographies, especially from Van, Turkey, and explores the dynamics of intertwined remembrance regimes concerning the political violence on Armenians and Syriac Christians of Ottoman imperial subjects and on Kurdish citizens of Turkey. These life stories shed light on the complexity of remembering, including collective and individual memory of violence, perpetration, and victimhood from past and present.

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Eren Yıldırım Yetkin

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Biographieforschung biography research Armenian genocide Völkermord an den Armeniern kurdische Studien Kurdish studies staatliche Gewalt in der Türkei Turkish state violence collective memory kollektives Gedächtnis Erinnerung remembrance contested memories umstrittene Erinnerungen denialism

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“Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory provides insight into how visions of the past shift within a turbulent political climate and how these shifts impact ongoing struggles.” 


Middle East Journal, Volume 76, Number 4, Spring 2023

“Regardless, allowing his interviewees to speak for themselves through frequent and often long quotations, Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory provides us with an understanding of the multi-layered meaning of the recognition of events in a society that has been subjected to various instances of sociocultural repression, political violence and injustice. Overall, Yetkin’s refreshingly candid model of oral history makes a valuable work in memory studies.”

Kurdish Studies Journal, 2 (2024)

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