Fatma Müge Göçek

Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan. She wrote the book Denial of Violence in 2015 concerning the persecution of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, for which she received the Mary Douglas award for best book from the American Sociological Association. In 2017, she won a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the university.

Biography Having obtained both her BSc and MSc at the Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, she went to Paris to learn French. In 1981, she moved to the Princeton University from where she received an additional MSc in 1984 and a Doctorate in 1988. which demanded that Turkey takes responsibility for the Armenian genocide.

Personal life Göçek was named Fatma after her great-grandmother.