Genocide in the Ottoman Empire : : Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923 / / ed. by George N. Shirinian.

The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regim...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. CONTEXTS
  • CHAPTER ONE. THE BACKGROUND TO THE LATE OTTOMAN GENOCIDES
  • CHAPTER TWO Convulsions at the End of Empire: Thrace, Asia Minor, and the Aegean
  • CHAPTER THREE. ASSYRIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE OFFICIAL TURKISH POLICY OF THEIR EXTERMINATION, 1890s–1918
  • PART II. DOCUMENTATION AND EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
  • CHAPTER FOUR Considering Genocide Testimony: Three Case Studies from the Armenian, Pontic, and Assyrian Genocides
  • CHAPTER FIVE THE ASSYRIAN ISSUE 1914-35 Australian Documents and Press
  • CHAPTER SIX. ETHNIC CLEANSING, AMERICAN WOMEN, AND THE ADMIRAL Deep in Anatolia during the Turkish Nationalist Revolution
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. FOUND IN TRANSLATION Eyewitness Accounts of the Massacres in Nicomedia as Reported by Greek Journalist Kostas Faltaits
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Destruction of Smyrna in 1922 An Armenian and Greek Shared Tragedy
  • PART III. LEGACIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
  • CHAPTER NINE Lemkin on Three Genocides: Comparing His Writings on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides
  • CHAPTER TEN The Greek Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Parallels with the Armenian Genocide
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE GENOCIDE OF THE OTTOMAN GREEKS, 1913–23 Myths and Facts
  • CHAPTER TWELVE “REDEEMING THE UNREDEEMED” The Anglo-Hellenic League’s Campaign for the Greeks in Asia Minor
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Genocide by Deportation into Poverty: Western Diplomats on Ottoman Christian Killings and Expulsions, 1914–24
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
  • Index