- Title
- Return of the Suppressed: Atatürk’s History Doctrine, Islam, and the Armenian Genocide
- Creator
- Kieser, Hans-Lukas
- Relation
- After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience p. 33-54
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- A post-Ottoman state founded a hundred years ago by a group of nationalists around Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Republic of Turkey has long been associated with “Kemalism.” Yet all these founders had been involved in the previous Young Turk party state, which was established during the Balkan Wars and ruled the late-Ottoman Empire until 1918. In contrast to the Young Turks, Kemalist “secularism” repressed and controlled religion. It was based on the abolition of the caliphate and—thanks to Swiss civil law, introduced in 1926 as a consequence of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty—of Sharia. It also involved highly symbolic steps like the transformation of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia cathedral, a mosque since Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, to a museum in 1934.1 Focusing Atatürk’s headspinning efforts of history-writing in order to break with the era before him, this chapter clarifies the return of suppressed themes of late-Ottoman history to present Turkey, notably of the Armenian Genocide and imperial Islam.
- Subject
- late-ottoman history; Turkey; Armenian genocide; imperial islam
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1502622
- Identifier
- uon:55249
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781788312769
- Language
- eng
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