Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction. On the Denial of Collective Violence
Chapter One. Imperial Denial of Origins of Violence, 1789-1907
Chapter Two. Young Turk Denial of the Act of Violence, 1908-1918
Chapter Three. Early Republican Denial of Actors of Violence, 1919-1973
Chapter Four. Late Republican Denial of Responsibility for Violence, 1974-2009
Conclusion
Appendix
Table
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Fatma Müge Göçek is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

"At the heart of Fatma Müge Göçek's book is the claim that forgetting doesn't just happen. Rather, forgetting (and remembering) happens in a context, with profound political and personal stakes for those involved. And this forgetting has consequences. Denial of Violence looks at how this process played out in Turkey in the past 200 years. ...thoughtful and intellectually rigorous." -New Books Network
"[A]cknowledgement of the long term consequences of violence for perpetrators as well as victims as well as an integration of the aftermaths of the Genocide into wider histories of modern Turkish politics and society is an important departure from the existing literature...Such willingness to engage with complex and prolonged patterns of violence rather than simply reproduce national narratives in painting all Turks as perpetrators and all Armenians as eternal
victims is another strength of this work...a welcome addition..."--Dr. Joanne Laycock, Reviews in History
"Göçek's Denial of Violence is vast and defies easy characterization...By bringing the story of denial across historical periods that had been separated primarily to map the political needs of nationalist politicians, Göçek can also shed light on the specific motivations of Turkish officials in the 1920s to mount a campaign of denial...[A] magisterial book..."--Keith David Watenpaugh, American Historical Review