Lecture, Persistent Past, How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affects Our World Today

Interviewee

Ronald Grigor Suny

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Publication Date

4-23-2012

Date

April 2012

Abstract

A century ago, the Young Turk government orchestrated deportations and massacres targeting various peoples in the Ottoman Empire, including Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Jews, Arabs, and others. While several of these brutal relocations have been recognized as genocide, the current Turkish state, along with the United States and other nations, continues to avoid labeling them as such. This denial of past violence and its erasure from historical memory has perpetuated violence and human rights abuses worldwide to this day. Historian Ronald Grigor Suny addresses these issues in a talk entitled "The Persistent Past," held at the USF Tampa Library on Monday, April 23rd, 2012. Dr. Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and Director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Michigan, as well as Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.

Keywords

Genocide, Armenians, Armenian massacres (1915-1923)

Extent

00:55:36

Subject: geographic

Turkey; Armenia

Language

English

Digital Date

2022

Media Type

Lectures

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

U31-00012

Recommended Citation

Suny, Ronald Grigor, "Lecture, Persistent Past, How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affects Our World Today" (2012). USF Library Presentations and Lectures. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_lib_lectures/2