The Armenian Genocide occurred a century ago. A dark chapter of Turkish history, always disputed, always a taboo, a drama that haunts the hearts and minds of every generation.
Pınar Selek examines her relationship with this event and the victim community. Reflecting on her memories and encounters over the years, she narrates what it means to construct slogans proclaiming national superiority, coming into contact with frightened and silent people, plowing through her homeland, Istanbul, where Armenian names have been erased from shop signs.
Actively participating in far-left movements that have embraced denial, this sensitive testimony, penetrating, at times self-critical, denounces the deadlocks of violence and gauges the mutations of collective mobilization.
