Turquía reprime la memoria de las minorías étnicas

 Manuel Ferez Gil

 

Oriente Medio News.- Querida Talin, gracias por tu tiempo. Solemos iniciar nuestras entrevistas pidiendo a nuestros invitados que hablen un poco sobre su biografía y especialmente sobre su trabajo académico y temas de investigación, así que por favor cuéntanos algo sobre ti.

Diaspora Historian Argues Against "One Nation, One Homeland" Myth

In December 2013, Munich-based historian Talin Suciyan was invited to Yerevan by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to participate in a conference regarding Diaspora-Armenia relations. Also invited were other intellectuals and political figures with a Western Armenian background.

Suciyan, a researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich's Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, tells Hetq that the participants had different approaches to the Diaspora – Armenia (hayrenik/homeland) paradigm:

Examining "the Denialist Habitus in Post-Genocidal Turkey"

Varak Ketsemanian

The forced eradication of the Armenians from their homeland in 1915 has generated a unique scholarship that closely examines the genocidal policies from 1915 to 1923. One aspect, however, has remained blurred: the post-genocidal period and the repercussions of the genocide on the remaining Armenian population in Turkey. In this interview with the Armenian Weekly, Talin Suciyan shows the consistency of state policies and internalization of these policies on the level of everyday life by the larger parts of the society. According to Suciyan, the normalization of denial both by the state and the society created a denialist habitus. She also presents tangible examples of how the Armenians had to become part of the denial as there was no other way of existence for them in the public sphere.

Commemorating Genocide in a Post-Genocide Denialist Habitus

Ayse Gunaysu

 

Dilara Balcı, in her book that gives a detailed account of how non-Muslims were represented in the Turkish film industry until the 1980’s, tells an anecdote that elucidates a great deal the environment in which Armenians, the descendants of genocide survivors, in Turkey led their lives.