Holocaust Education in Turkey: Past, Present, and Future

Pınar Dost-Niyego and İlker Aytürk

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2016, vol. 3, issue 3, 250-265

Abstract: The article emphasizes on the challenges stemming from writing the history of a multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious, post-imperial society from the perspective of a nation-state that strives for sweeping all differences under the carpet. It focuses on the complete absence of Holocaust education in Turkish public curricula. There are various challenges that future Holocaust educators do and may face in Turkey and the article strives to address some of them. It concludes that Holocaust education can contribute to memory studies, citizenship, and human rights education in Turkey, empowering an already existing public debate on confronting Turkey’s troubled past.

Keywords: Holocaust education; Turkey; Turkey–Israel; Turkish attitude toward Jews; Second World War; Antisemitism; Memory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798916654581

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