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100 1 _aGÖÇEK, Fatma Müge
_934788
245 1 0 _aThrough a glass darkly :
_bconsequences of a politicized past in contemporary Turkey
260 _aThousand Oaks :
_bSAGE,
_cMay 2008
520 3 _aThe resolution of the three major political problems faced by the contemporary Turkish nation-state— namely, the massacres of the Armenians in the past, the treatment of the Kurds at present, and the contested partition of the island of Cyprus—has become increasingly urgent as these problems have started to impede Turkey's chances of joining the European Union and also of becoming more democratic. Yet, since the Turkish nation-state commences its own official historical narrative with either the Independence Struggle in 1919 or the subsequent establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, it subsequently approaches these "Armenian, Kurdish, and Cyprus issues" as totally disparate and mutually independent, and in an ahistorical manner, resulting in increased entrenchment of the conflicts. The article argues that challenging the temporal boundaries of this Turkish official narrative by delving into its "prehistory," namely, the period preceding 1919 or 1923, reveals not only the common origin of all of these issues but also a possible peaceful solution to them all as well as for a more democratic Turkey
773 0 8 _tThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
_g617, p. 88-106
_dThousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2008
_xISSN 00027162
_w
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