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The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity
Taner Akçam
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocide
Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a "crime against humanity and civilization," the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's "official history" rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative.
The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic.
By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process.
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Greeks, Balkan Wars, Turkification, Jews, Erzincan, World War I, Ethnic cleansing, Central Committee, Ottomanism, Balkans, Patriarchate, General Directorate of Security, Clark University, Archive, Greeks in Turkey, Kurds, Kastamonu, Ottoman Greeks, Military necessity, Cultural genocide, Erzurum, Canik, Obstacle, Armenian Genocide denial, Armenians, Armenian Question, Grand Vizier, Edirne, Samsun, Special Organization (Ottoman Empire), Ethnoreligious group, Armistice, Russians, Yozgat, Effendi, Murder, Emigration, Great power, Decree, Ottoman Archives, Armenian Genocide, Court-martial, Pretext, Persecution, Kurush, Central government, Crime, Historiography, Religious conversion, Politician, Aegean Region, Krikor Zohrab, Population transfer, Sanliurfa, Immigration, Refugee, National security, Looting, Ottoman Empire, Trabzon, Enver Pasha, Enver, Prosecutor, Indictment, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Bitlis, Konya, Deportation, Talaat Pasha, Committee of Union and Progress