After Years of Silence, Turkey and Armenia Will Try to Come up with a New Language of Understanding

Author(s): Karin Karakasli
Editor(s): Lili Di Puppo, Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 11
Pages: 8-11
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Jefferson Institute, Washington D.C.; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2009

The author, an Armenian living in Turkey, examines how to build trust and confidence between Armenians and Turks. Past Turkish state policy drove wedges between citizens of Turkey who had different religious and ethnic backgrounds. Now efforts to address both the Armenian and Kurdish issues should be seen as part of Turkey's overall democratization process. Literature in general and the stories and memories of ordinary people who survived 1915 can help build a new type of politics.

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