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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 2 2016 Oya Topdemir Koçyiğit | Savaşın torunları : Travmatik belleğe kuşaklar ötesi bir bakış 57 how bitter these memories were, the deductions were perceived as “gains” for the future. War memory prompted the Turkish-German generation to redesign their habitus. This research reveals that an emphasis on identity difference leads people to reproduce those difference and to gain a closer understanding of their family histories. In their quest to explore their German identity, members of the Turkish-German third generation have reproduced the dual origins of their own identity. Author’s affiliation Oya Topdemir Koçyiğit, İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü, Sosyal Antropoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ordu Cad. No:196 Oda:269, 34459 Laleli, Istanbul, Turkey otopdemir @ gmail.com Extended Abstract of: Oya Topdemir Koçyiğit, ‘The grandchildren of war: A transgenerational perspective on trau- matic memory’, Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 2, 2016, 31-53. <http://unipub.uni-graz. at/mcsj>