This PhD project aims at investigating the silence surrounding the Armenian Genocide and find ways to break this silence. In its first stage of inquiry, critically informed research will show how this silence has been perpetuated in Turkish national historiography since the early days of the republic and has dictated not only public and historical but also personal discourse. In its second stage, this PhD project will attempt to formulate a new methodology that deals with politically contested historical subjects in a new unique way. In reference to genocide studies as a broader field, the institutionalization of the Armenian genocide denial through the Turkish national state will serve as an exemplary case of what can be called ‘historical silence’. The provisional title of this PhD project then could be rephrased as ‘The silent Nation’.