Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey By Eray Çayli

Esra Özyürek, Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023).

This line of inquiry has significant relevance in the Turkish context. Nazlı Konya has shown how Turkish state authorities, envious of popular mobilisations at Gezi Park, have attempted to create rival popular movements from the top down. Here, the domain of the kamusal effectively mimics the politics of the meydan. See Nazlı Konya, “Making a People: Turkey’s ‘Democracy Watches’ and Gezi-Envy,” Political Theory 49, no. 5 (2021): 828−55.