Akçam / Akcam The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity

The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4184-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 528 Seiten

Reihe: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Akçam, Taner

Akcam, Taner

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Guide to Ottoman Turkish Words and Names xxxvii

Abbreviations xxxix

CHAPTER ONE Ottoman Sources and the Question of Their Being Purged 1

CHAPTER TWO: The Plan for the Homogenization of Anatolia 29

CHAPTER THREE: The Aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the"Emptying" of Eastern Thrace and the Aegean Littoral in 1913-14 63

CHAPTER FOUR: The Transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War 97

CHAPTER FIVE: The Initial Phase of Anti-Armenian Policy 125

CHAPTER SIX: Final Steps in the Decision-Making Process 157

CHAPTER SEVEN: Interior Ministry Documents and the Intent to Annihilate 203

CHAPTER EIGHT: Demographic Policy and the Annihilation of the Armenians 227

CHAPTER NINE: Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children 287

CHAPTER TEN: The Question of Confi scated Armenian Property 341

ELEVEN Some Official Denialist Arguments of the Turkish State and Documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry 373

CHAPTER TWELVE: Toward a Conclusion 449

Selected Bibliography 453

Index 471

Über Autor(innen)

Taner Akçam, the first scholar of Turkish origin to publicly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His many books include A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books).