The politics of public memory in Turkey / edited by Esra Özyürek. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007. - x, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-210) and index.

Introduction : the politics of public memory in Turkey / Esra Özyürek -- Weaving modernity, commercializing carpets : collective memory and contested tradition in Örselli village / Kimberly Hart -- Stories in three dimensions : narratives of nation and the Anatolian civilizations museum / Aslı Gür -- Remembering a nine-thousand-year-old site : presenting Çatalhöyük / Ayfer Bartu Candan -- An endless death and an eternal mourning : November 10 in Turkey / Nazlı Ökten -- Public memory as political battleground : Islamist subversions of republican nostalgia / Esra Özyürek -- Memories of violence, memoirs of nation : the 1915 massacres and the construction of Armenian identity / Cihan Tuğal -- Polyphony and geographic kinship in Anatolia : framing the Turkish-Greek compulsory population exchange / Aslı Iğsiz.

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Collective memory--Turkey.


Turkey --History.

DR471 / P65 2007