The Destruction of the Monument to Humanity: Historical Conflict and Monumentalization

2018/10/01 by Egemen Özbek · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society

paper · doi:10.1515/iph-2018-0011

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Abstract

Abstract The destruction of the Monument to Humanity caused a heated debate in Turkey about the relationship between political power and artistic freedom. However, parties in this debate failed, to a great extent, to address the genocidal past the monument had evoked, let alone to take responsibility for the denial of that past in Turkey.

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