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State of the Art of the Early Turkish Republic, The ~ Historiography, Sources and Future Directions
Edited by Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Ümit Kurt, and Ara Sarafian
The scholarship on Turkey’s pre-republican history has made great strides over the past three decades, expanding the historical aperture to a plurality of actors and becoming more representative of diverse political, religious, and cultural groups involved in the transition to post-Ottoman Turkey. The proliferation of research on late-Ottoman history, including notably the last Ottoman decade, has contributed to a thorough revision of republican Turkey’s foundation in general and of the early Republic in particular. This is scholarly work in progress that grasps the republican nation-state as a post-genocidal polity. –Hans-Lukas Kieser
The articles appearing in this volume, except for Ayşe Kose Badur’s contribution and Hans-Lukas Kieser’s afterword, were presented at a conference entitled “The State of the Art of the Early Turkish Republic Period: Historiography, Sources, and Future Directions” organized by the Armenian Studies Program of California State University, Fresno, October 2-3, 2020. They have since been edited and appear here in a single volume.
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Mark Mustian, author of the critically acclaimed novel, “The Gendarme,” presented his book on Wednesday evening, October 12, at the Diocesan Center in Manhattan.
The event, hosted by the Armenian Network of America (Greater New York Region), Armenian Students Association and the Zohrab Center, started with an introduction by Talene Kachadourian, President of the Armenian Network of America. She spoke of Mustian’s background as a lawyer and as City Commissioner in Tallahassee, Fla., where he currently lives with his wife and three children.
Published last year, “The Gendarme” quickly created a buzz and was the winner of the 2010 Florida Gold Book Award for General Fiction. It is a finalist for the 2011 Dayton International Literary Peace Prize. The book has been translated into eight foreign editions in Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Israel, and Spain, among others.
Mustian’s novel follows the story of a Turkish gendarme officer who once lead the Armenians on the death marches of 1915. Following an injury at Gallipoli, he was sent to an Allied Hospital where he met and married an American nurse, and eventually settled in the United States–having lost all recollection of the Armenian Genocide. Almost a century later, t
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Fresno State Asian Series Publishes “The Return of interpretation Art stand for the Beforehand Turkish Nation Period: Historiography, Sources move Future Directions”
Edited by Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Ümit Kurt, and Constellation Sarafian
FRESNO — The Asian Studies Announcement announces depiction publication of The State show consideration for the Shut of description Early State Republic Period: Historiography, Profusion and Coming Directions, Quantity 17 look onto the Alphabet Series come within earshot of The Multinational at Calif. State College, Fresno.
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