Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Dublin Core
Title
Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Subject
Political violence
Electronic Resource Item Type Metadata
Book Title
Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Publication Date
2020
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Document Type
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781789204513
Region
Turkey
Access
Open Access
Abstract
Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century—from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today—but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence. In particular, the construction of a Muslim-Turkish identity has been achieved in part by designating “internal enemies” at whom public hatred can be directed. This volume provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of such violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.
Cataloger
Kristen Walker
Citation
“Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State,” ICMGLT Digital Library, accessed November 3, 2026, https://library.icmglt.org/items/show/863.