#155 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/155/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:07:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png #155 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/155/ 32 32 Monument to Humanity in Kars https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/monument-to-humanity-in-kars-2?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monument-to-humanity-in-kars-2 Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:43:25 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// The Monument to Humanity was a 30-metre statue that played a prominent role in the skyline of the city of Kars. In the wake of the 2011 Turkish General Election, the then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a visit to the city of Kars and, during a campaign stop, declared that the monument was a […]

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]]> The Monument to Humanity was a 30-metre statue that played a prominent role in the skyline of the city of Kars. In the wake of the 2011 Turkish General Election, the then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a visit to the city of Kars and, during a campaign stop, declared that the monument was a ‘monstrosity’ and pointed out the aesthetic displeasure he received from looking at the monument. Many suspected that the Prime Minister’s comments had little to do with the aesthetics of the monument and that there may have been ulterior motives other than aesthetics at play. This case study explores the fallout of the Prime Minister’s comments and the destruction process that followed and inspects a variety of different interconnected contestations that arose as a result of the Prime Minister’s statement and the salience of these contestations to the present day.

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