Memory Politics and Cultures in Turkey
Memory Politics and Cultures in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: The article gives an insight into memory politics and cultures in Turkey and into related discussions throughout the 20th century until today. Academic studies on memory politics and cultures have only begun recently, as this kind of research has always been linked to taboo topics such as the state’s politics against non-Muslim minorities in the Turkish Republic, as well as the methodology of oral history is still weakly institutionalized in Turkey. Furthermore the state’s monopoly in creating collective memories constituted a serious obstacle for alternatives in historical research. Although the ROW of 1877 – 1878 played a decisive role in the creation of modern Turkey at a political, social, cultural and demographic level and has therefore taken an important place in the popular memory, it has not caused an adequate manifestation in Turkish historiography and has not recently triggered a discussion within the framework of memory politics and cultures in Turkey.

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