“Absence of the Present: The Reburial of Adnan Menderes and the Condition of Possibility of Public Memory in Turkey,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies v.13, no. 1 (2016), 93-108. This essay analyzes the status of public memory surrounding the 1990 exoneration and reburial of former Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, who was executed by a military junta in 1961. During this revision of official memory of Menderes’s legacy, a coordination of the concepts state, nation, and military produce the meaning of the reburial ceremony at the same time that these concepts are themselves constituted through the event of the reburial. Approaching this event of public memory as an “inscription” in Derrida’s sense, this essay argues that events of public memory simultaneously produce and rely on the conditions of their own possibility.