The Armenian genocide and its denial is the element by which one can best define the “spirit” of the Republic of Turkey. The living and permanent spectre of a terrible crime against humanity, and the fact that the perpetrators went unpunished (that they “got away with it”), shaped the future role of communities as a code of (un)ethics in society. In this framework, the Muslim Turks re-established their status as the “ruling nation” (colonisers) of the country, while the “indigenous peoples”—Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and others—were massacred, expelled from their homes, forced to leave the country, dispossessed of their property, or remained as unequal and unwanted citizens of the new republic, constantly victimised by denial. This chapter discusses how the last hundred years of post-genocide republican history are full of re-enacted moments of structural violence against non-Muslims and non-Turks, both in deceptively peaceful times and when routine relations break down during massacres and pogroms. In four subsections—the hostage situation, dystopic state surveillance, palimpsests of violence, and anticipated catastrophe—the chapter addresses the legacies of genocide and denial in Turkish Republican history through a non-exhaustive overview of both historical and contemporary cases.