24 April, 2016

A Century After Armenian Genocide, Turkey’s Denial Only Deepens - The New York Times

A Century After Armenian Genocide, Turkey’s Denial Only Deepens - The New York Times: "Turkey’s ossified position, so at odds with the historical scholarship, is a legacy of how the Turkish republic was established after World War I. Under its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, society here underwent a process of Turkification: a feat of social engineering based on an erasure of the past and the denial of a multiethnic history. The Armenian massacres were wiped from the country’s history, only to emerge for ordinary Turks in the 1970s after an Armenian terrorist campaign against Turkish diplomats.

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