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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814907103321

Autore

Dadrian Vahakn N

Titolo

Judgment at Istanbul : the Armenian genocide trials / / by Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011

ISBN

1-283-39515-0

9786613395153

0-85745-286-X

Edizione

[English language ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AkçamTaner <1953->

Disciplina

345.566/20251

345.56620251

Soggetti

Trials (Genocide) - Turkey - Istanbul

War crime trials - Turkey - Istanbul

Armenians - Crimes against - Turkey

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923

Genocide - Turkey

Genocide - Armenia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

History of the Turko-Armenian conflict / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Military defeat and the victors' drive for punitive justice / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The preparations for court-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The initiation of courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Emergent Kemalism and the courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The series of major trials and the related verdicts : the falsification of the arguments of "relocation," "civil war" and "intercommunal clashes" / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Legal proceedings as a conceptual framework / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- A summary of the conditions surrounding the trials / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The full texts in English of the indictments and verdicts -- The judicial liquidation of some of the arch perpetrators by both CUP and the Kemalist authorities and the demise of other accomplices / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Death sentences handed down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul / Taner Akçam -- Coverage of the trials by the Istanbul Turkish press / Taner Akçam -- Formation and



operation of the Ottoman military tribunals / Taner Akçam.

Sommario/riassunto

Turkey's bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative tr