Denial of Violence

Denial of Violence
AuthorFatma Müge Göçek
Publication date
2015

Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009 is a 2015 book by Turkish sociologist Fatma Müge Göçek which deals with the denial, justification, and rationalization of state-sponsored violence against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing especially on the Armenian genocide and its persistent denial in Turkey.[1][2][3] Among the arguments made in the book is that the Armenian genocide was an act of foundational violence that enabled the creation of the Republic of Turkey and its continuing denial is an ideological foundation of the Turkish nation-state. The book was praised by reviewers for its extensive research and methodological innovation, although some noted that it was dense and not easy to read for those not familiar with the topic.

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  2. ^ Usitalo, Steven A. (2017). "Denial of violence: Ottoman past, Turkish present, and collective violence against the Armenians, 1789–2009 by Fatma Müge Göçek, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, xviii + 656 pp., US$78.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-199-33420-9". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 59 (3–4): 428–430. doi:10.1080/00085006.2017.1377444. S2CID 164628938.
  3. ^ Polláková, Ľubica (2015). "Denial of violence: Ottoman past, Turkish present, and collective violence against the Armenians, 1789–2009. By Fatma Müge Göçek". International Affairs. 91 (3): 651–652. doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12307.