The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey

by Esra Özyürek

Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Atat rk founded modern Turkey after World War I. Indeed, in 1923, the newly founded Turkish Republic committed to a modernist future by erasing the memory of its Ottoman past. Now, almost eighty years after the establishment of the republic, the grandchildren of the founders have a different relationship with history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631316
• ISBN13: 9780815631316
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"