Louis’s Reviews > Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide > Status Update

“In 2005, Orhan Pamuk was prosecuted under the new controversial Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, “insulting Turkishness. The charges were eventually dropped, and Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. And that, my friends, is why Turkey is as much of a joke as the other nations it mimics.”

“Genocide was not the subject of interest of the academic community, until Holocaust scholars and Jewish communities made it one - at which point other people started saying ‘what about us?’”

“The notorious Unionist Şükrü Kaya, who had directed the Armenian deportations in 1915, would serve as Atatürk’s interior minister and oversee the forced relocation of the Kurds.”

“The new Turkey lived by the famous formulation of Ernest Renan that a nation-state is founded on a deliberate act of forgetting.”

“There can be no doubt thar the example of Genghis had a foremost impact upon the organization and implementation of not only the Armenian genocide but also the Nazi-engineered cataclysm of World War II in which the Jewish Holocaust occupies the center stage.”