Download or read book Denial of Violence written by Fatma Müge Göçek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denial of Violence seeks to decipher the roots of the denial by Turkish and Ottoman officials of acts of violence committed against Armenians. Based on a qualitative analysis of over 300 memoirs published in Turkey from 1789 to 2009, Fatma Müge Göçek analyzes denial as a multilayered process that starts with the advent of systematic modernity in the Ottoman Empire in 1789 and continues to this day in the Turkish Republic.