"The Armenian shadow over Turkey’s democratisation
Gunes Murat Tezcur
13 - 10 - 2005
Turkish acceptance of the fate of the Armenians in 1915 would unlock a society steeped in denial of its own historical experience, says Gunes Murat Tezcur
“Every society experiences defeat in its own way”, observes Wolfgang Schivelbusch in his book The Culture of Defeat: On National Mourning, Trauma and Recovery, “but the varieties of response within vanquished nations conform to a recognisable set of patterns that recur across time and national boundaries.”"
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