“Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century Turkey
The process of Turkish state formation coincides with systematic large-scale massacres, persecution and exclusion of certain groups - namely Armenians, Rums, Jews, Assyrians and Kurds. However, accounts of the process of Turkish nation-building which deal with its destructive side often overlook the...
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| description | The process of Turkish state formation coincides with systematic large-scale massacres, persecution and exclusion of certain groups - namely Armenians, Rums, Jews, Assyrians and Kurds. However, accounts of the process of Turkish nation-building which deal with its destructive side often overlook the “Turkification” of many non-Muslim women and children in the wake of the First World War. This study aims to fill this gap by drawing on personal narratives and testimonies of forceful assimilation published in the last decade in Turkey. As any discussion on the Armenian Genocide was one that was silenced until not so long ago in Turkey, and historians working on the topic of the Armenian Genocide or mass persecution of Rums often discover that data is either inaccessible or ‘lost’, it is of even greater importance that the personal narrative of survivors be integrated into history writing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b2dffd4484d42ba9731081b7ada0fe32022-12-21T19:11:48ZengInternational Association of Genocide ScholarsGenocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal1911-03591911-99332016-12-01103253810.5038/1911-9933.10.3.1384“Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century TurkeyT. ElalThe process of Turkish state formation coincides with systematic large-scale massacres, persecution and exclusion of certain groups - namely Armenians, Rums, Jews, Assyrians and Kurds. However, accounts of the process of Turkish nation-building which deal with its destructive side often overlook the “Turkification” of many non-Muslim women and children in the wake of the First World War. This study aims to fill this gap by drawing on personal narratives and testimonies of forceful assimilation published in the last decade in Turkey. As any discussion on the Armenian Genocide was one that was silenced until not so long ago in Turkey, and historians working on the topic of the Armenian Genocide or mass persecution of Rums often discover that data is either inaccessible or ‘lost’, it is of even greater importance that the personal narrative of survivors be integrated into history writing.http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol10/iss3/5Turkification of non-MuslimsNarrative as TestimonyCollective and Redemptive Memory |
| spellingShingle | T. Elal “Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century Turkey Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal Turkification of non-Muslims Narrative as Testimony Collective and Redemptive Memory |
| title | “Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century Turkey |
| title_full | “Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century Turkey |
| title_fullStr | “Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century Turkey |
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| title_short | “Her Name Was Not Seher, It Was Heranuş…”: Reading Narratives of Forced Turkification in Twenty-First Century Turkey |
| title_sort | her name was not seher it was heranus reading narratives of forced turkification in twenty first century turkey |
| topic | Turkification of non-Muslims Narrative as Testimony Collective and Redemptive Memory |
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