Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I / / David Gaunt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gaunt, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (556 p.) :; 22
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Summary --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; List of Maps --; List of Tables --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; 1. Introduction and Background --; 2. Setting the Stage: Kurds and Turks, Armenians and Syriacs --; 3. The Road to the Fatal Solution --; 4. Playing with Fire: Occupied Urmia --; 5. The Ethnic Cleansing of the Hakkari Mountains --; 6. Anatolia’s Heart of Darkness --; 7. The Destruction of Midyat --; 8. Sayfo: The General Massacre of Northern Mesopotamia --; 9. The Battle for Azakh --; 10. Implications and Conclusions --; 11. Notes on the Sources --; Appendix 1. Oral Testimony on Tur Abdin 1914–15 --; Appendix 2. Documents on the Syriac Population --; Appendix 3. Documents on the Number of Victims --; Appendix 4. Turkish Archival Documents on Deportations and Sieges --; Bibliography --; Indexes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463210816; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463210816
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Gaunt.

This is a pioneering historical investigation of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syrian Christian minorities during World War I, who suffered the same fate as the Armenians. Ethnic cleansing and large-scale massacres occurred throughout northern Mesopotamia and parts of Ottoman-occupied Iran. Based on primary sources from official archives, as well as hitherto unused manuscript sources and oral histories published here for the first time, this book attempts to give a full picture of the events of 1915. The book concentrates on the Assyrians of Urmia and Hakkari and on the Syrians of Diyarbekir province, particularly in Tur Abdin.