This chapter focuses on the changing memory landscape of Turkey after the 2000s. It discusses the robust and multifaceted political struggle for memory that emerged during this period and how it opened breaches in the national narrative. The chapter provides a historical background of the salient phases and junctures of memory politics in Turkey and discusses the monolithic, exclusionary, denial-based memory regime that existed until the 1980s. I argue that the 1980s marked a radical political and cultural transformation in Turkey, which also impacted social remembering. The erosion of the monolithic narrative of the nation in the 1980s and the accumulation created by social movements since the 1980s led to the struggle for memory that gained strength in the 2000s. Turkey’s monolithic and exclusionary memory regime had a potential fragility, and by the 2000s, it became possible to speak of a vibrant and dynamic political memory struggle that could create erosions in this fragile memory regime. The chapter provides a landscape of memory struggle in Turkey and indicates multiple fields and collective agents involved in memory activism. It concludes that the decades under discussion only refer to the primary actions and imaginings of the memory turn in Turkey and that the struggle for memory in Turkey will progress in a way that promotes diversity and further erodes monolithic narratives.

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Fractures in Dominant Republican Memory: The 2000s, the Memory Turn and Memory Activism in Turkey

  • Göze Orhon

摘要

This chapter focuses on the changing memory landscape of Turkey after the 2000s. It discusses the robust and multifaceted political struggle for memory that emerged during this period and how it opened breaches in the national narrative. The chapter provides a historical background of the salient phases and junctures of memory politics in Turkey and discusses the monolithic, exclusionary, denial-based memory regime that existed until the 1980s. I argue that the 1980s marked a radical political and cultural transformation in Turkey, which also impacted social remembering. The erosion of the monolithic narrative of the nation in the 1980s and the accumulation created by social movements since the 1980s led to the struggle for memory that gained strength in the 2000s. Turkey’s monolithic and exclusionary memory regime had a potential fragility, and by the 2000s, it became possible to speak of a vibrant and dynamic political memory struggle that could create erosions in this fragile memory regime. The chapter provides a landscape of memory struggle in Turkey and indicates multiple fields and collective agents involved in memory activism. It concludes that the decades under discussion only refer to the primary actions and imaginings of the memory turn in Turkey and that the struggle for memory in Turkey will progress in a way that promotes diversity and further erodes monolithic narratives.