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.

Genocide Denial Light

The following review of Deep Mountain: Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, by Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran, was published in the Winter 2011 issue of New Politics. The author, G. M. Goshgarian, is an accomplished literary scholar and translator. One of his most recent translations, Hagop Oshagan's novel on the Armenian Catastrophe, Remnants, still unpublished, won a PEN Club translation award in 2009.