ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the collective writings of history by a group of scholars of "Turkish origin," mainly deriving from a tradition of leftist sentiments. Hence, the emergence of a new trend in Turkish historiography that provides an alternative interpretation of the historical event of 1915 ought to be considered as an important step toward a critical assessment of the state's narrative on the historical event of 1915. Reform, economic advancement, revolt, immigration, nationalism, and oppression constitute essential chronological elements in the narrative of Turkish liberal historiography on the event of 1915. Moreover, this series of interconnected events constitutes the historical background and the historical explanation in the interpretation of the Turkish liberal narrative of the deterioration of the Armeno-Turkish relationship and its culmination in the Armenian Genocide. Turkish liberal historiography tends to represent the historical background of the Armeno-Turkish conflict by using causal relations.
