Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Name: Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
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ISBN: 9780691159560

ISBN-10: 0691159564

ISBN-13: 9780691159560

Edition: 2013

Authors: Taner Akï¿½am, Taner Akï¿½am

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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…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.628

Taner Akï¿½am holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His best-known books are A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, 2006);ï¿½ Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials , with Vahakn Dadrian (Berghahn Books, 2011); and The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire , (Princeton University Press, 2012), which in 2013 received the Middle East Studies Association's Hourani Book Prize andï¿½ was listed by Foreign Affairs as "Best International Relations Books of 2012."



Preface


Guide to Ottoman Turkish Words and Names


Abbreviations



Ottoman Sources and the Question of Their Being Purged



The Plan for the Homogenization of Anatolia



The Aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the "Emptying" of Eastern Thrace and the Aegean Littoral in 1913-14



The Transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War



The Initial Phase of Anti-Armenian Policy



Final Steps in the Decision-Making Process



Interior Ministry Documents and the Intent to Annihilate



Demographic Policy and the Annihilation of the, Armenians



Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children



The Question of Confiscated Armenian Property



Some Official Denialist Arguments of the Turkish State and Documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry



Toward a Conclusion


Selected Bibliography


Index