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HRANT DINK FOUNDATION PRESS PUBLISHES COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
June 11, 2013 - 10:03 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The collection of essays presented at the conference
"Social and Ecomic History of Diyarbakır and Region", held in
Diyarbakır on November 11-13, 2011 by Hrant Dink Foundation, has
now been published in Turkish by Hrant Dink Foundation Press.
The book includes 24 essays on the region by researchers abroad and
in Turkey. Its importance is due to its contribution to the debates
about the peace process that Turkey goes through nowadays.
"Memory is returning to these lands. It is coming from a far, from
the period of nation-building, which is over a century away. Surely,
what has been deemed fit by the state for the inhabitants of these
lands during the process of nation-building, what the inhabitants
deemed fit for each other, the suffering, the collective violence,
every malign recollection that has been forgotten or worse, made to
forget, is returning now. But it is not just the malign memory that
is returning; the differences that these lands embraced, the wealth
that has been destroyed or ignored as a result of the nation-making
are also returning. Since decades, this country witnesses every day a
lot of information, existence and absence which is new but not really
new," said Cengiz Aktar, professor of political science at Istanbul's
Bahcesehir University.
June 11, 2013 - 10:03 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The collection of essays presented at the conference
"Social and Ecomic History of Diyarbakır and Region", held in
Diyarbakır on November 11-13, 2011 by Hrant Dink Foundation, has
now been published in Turkish by Hrant Dink Foundation Press.
The book includes 24 essays on the region by researchers abroad and
in Turkey. Its importance is due to its contribution to the debates
about the peace process that Turkey goes through nowadays.
"Memory is returning to these lands. It is coming from a far, from
the period of nation-building, which is over a century away. Surely,
what has been deemed fit by the state for the inhabitants of these
lands during the process of nation-building, what the inhabitants
deemed fit for each other, the suffering, the collective violence,
every malign recollection that has been forgotten or worse, made to
forget, is returning now. But it is not just the malign memory that
is returning; the differences that these lands embraced, the wealth
that has been destroyed or ignored as a result of the nation-making
are also returning. Since decades, this country witnesses every day a
lot of information, existence and absence which is new but not really
new," said Cengiz Aktar, professor of political science at Istanbul's
Bahcesehir University.