CHAPTER 10 State Violence in ‘Kurdistan’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Case Studies in the Ottoman Empire
6. CHAPTER 1 On the Genealogy of the Armenian–Turkish Conflict, Sultan Abdülhamid and the Armenian Massacres 13
7. CHAPTER 2 The Long Assyrian Genocide 56
8. CHAPTER 3 The Hamidian Massacres: Gendered Violence, Biopolitics and National Honour 97
9. CHAPTER 4 On Collective Responsibility in the Extermination of Ottoman Armenians 122
10. CHAPTER 5 The Final Phase: The Cleansing of Armenian and Greek Survivors, 1919–1922 147
11. CHAPTER 6 Collective State Violence against G reeks in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1821–1923 174
12. PART II Case Studies in Republican Turkey
13. CHAPTER 7 The Attempted Pogrom against the Jews of Thrace, June–July 1934 233
14. CHAPTER 8 A History of Armenians Remaining in Turkey Survival and Denial 254
15. CHAPTER 9 The Events of 6–7 September 1955 Greeks, Armenians and Jews within the Context of the Strategies of the Turkish Republic 277
16. CHAPTER 10 State Violence in ‘Kurdistan’ 303
17. CHAPTER 11 Physical and Epistemic Violence against Alevis in Modern Turkey 347
18. CHAPTER 12 Inscriptions of Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Memory Narrations from Dersim 372
19. CHAPTER 13 The Yazidis: Resilience in Times of Violence 400
20. PART III Thematic Essays
21. CHAPTER 14 ‘Who Did This to Us?’ Blaming the Enemies as Part of Turkey’s Authoritarian Political Culture 427
22. CHAPTER 15 Nationalism and History, Masks of Violence 454
23. CHAPTER 16 Public Violence in Turkey from the Nineteenth Century Onwards 480
24. CHAPTER 17 Structures of Power, Coercion and Violence in Republican Turkey 504
25. Afterword: Shapes, Legitimation, and Legacies of Violence in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey 525
26. Index 568