Dr. Talin Suciyan
Ludwig Maximilian University
Dr. Talin Suciyan’s talk will present the central findings of her recent publication, The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post–Genocide Society, Politics and History (I.B. Tauris, 2016). The lecture will discuss the author’s reconstruction of the little–known history of the remarkable survival of Turkey’s Armenian community in the wake of the genocide of 1915 by relying on a painstaking examination of local Armenian sources alongside documentation from the Turkish state archives. By using oral histories, minutes of the Armenian National Assembly,memoirs, personal archives, yearbooks, and various newspapers published during the post–1923 period, Suciyan tries to restore a historiographic voice to those silenced by history.
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Co–sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies
