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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822295103321

Autore

Akcam Taner <1953->

Titolo

The Young Turks' crime against humanity : the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire / / Taner Akcam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-49463-8

9786613589866

1-4008-4184-4

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 p.)

Collana

Human rights and crimes against humanity

Disciplina

956.6/2023

Soggetti

Armenian massacres, 1915-1923

Armenian question

Genocide - Turkey

Armenians - Turkey - History - 20th century

Turkey Ethnic relations History 20th century

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

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 politics 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Armen