Governments always have their reasons to bend history one way or another, or in more dramatic cases, to flat out erase details or entire chapters from it’s pages. Whether covering-up an embarrassing failure or an underhanded operation, all governments have a few skeletons in their closets and it is no secret that it is the modus operandi of the modern state to dictate their nation’s story as it serves them. It takes a brilliant (and not to mention courageous) writer to seek out and expose these lies, but that is exactly what Mustafa Armağan has done to the history of the Turkish Republic in ‘Black Holes in Contemporary Turkish History.’ Did Vahdettin, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sign the Treaty of Sevres? What was the content of the letter that Atatürk sent to the US Senate? What was written in the letter that Atatürk sent to Turks living in Kirkuk? What was the nature of the dispute between President Atatürk and Prime Minister Ismet Inönü? İn the Ottoman Empire, which grand vizier wanted to conclude the Armenian Genocide Allegations? How was the emigration of the Armenians caused by the Armenians themselves? Answers to these and many other controvertial questions can be found in this book.