{"product_id":"open-wounds-armenians-turks-and-a-century-of-genocide-hardcover","title":"Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVicken Cheterian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks soon re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last the silence had been broken. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Wounds \u003c\/em\u003eexplains how, after the First World War, the new Turkish Republic forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands -- a process to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian argues, \"a century of genocide.\" Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities -- like the Kurds today -- nor have an open and democratic society without addressing the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVicken Cheterian\u003c\/strong\u003e lectures at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. As a journalist and historian, he has worked on contemporary conflicts in the Middle East and post-Soviet space, publishing widely in Le Monde Diplomatique, Al-Hayat, and Open Democracy. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 9.5 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255294222438,"sku":"9780190263508","price":48.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/c3VXREhMNEVIVGc4dTFPRGE3dFh3dz09.webp?v=1773654711","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/open-wounds-armenians-turks-and-a-century-of-genocide-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}