Rebellion Lands

Turks have written surprisingly little about the modern history of this part of their country. Because the period since the end of the 19th century is seen not as history, but as politics, and everyone with a grain of sense stays away from politics […] If you want to explore the recent past, don't do it in a library full of their books, otherwise you will have a rather strange idea about what happened. Go outside, into the open air. Christopher de Bellaigue, who came to Turkey as a reporter in 1995, stayed here for many years. With the information he acquired, he wrote an article for the New York Review of Books about the period from the late 19th century to Ataturk's Turkey and began to define himself as a Kemalist; Until his article praising the Republic and Ataturk's reforms received a critical response from James Russell, professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard. The author begins to question what he knows and his sources; When he realizes that he has very little and biased information about minorities in Turkey, he wants to learn more. However, instead of doing this by browsing through books in libraries, she decides to go to the lands where these people live and chooses Varto. The book in your hand, starting from Varto, conveys the experiences and struggles of the minority peoples who lived in these lands over a wide range of periods.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 312

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 312

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish