Turkey: The Tricky Business of Confronting a Dark Past
January 4, 2012 - 5:22pm, by Yigal Schleifer
The Turko-file
Turkish Domestic Politics
Turkish Judicial System
Without a doubt, one of the major changes in Turkey in recent years has been the willingness of the state and of a growing segment of Turkish society to confront some of the dark chapters in the country's modern history. The way this is being done might be flawed (look at this previous post about Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's politically-charged apology for a 1930's mass killing in eastern Turkey), but the significance of what were once taboo subjects now being openly discussed should not be overlooked.
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