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The thirty-year genocide : Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924

Title
The thirty-year genocide : Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924 / Benny Morris & Dror Ze'evi.
Author
Morris, Benny, 1948-
Publication
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-
Description
xvi, 656 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  • A new understanding of the three waves of ethno-religious violence that swept Turkey from the last days of the Ottoman Empire to the early years of the Turkish Republic, arguing that all three were part of one purposeful genocidal program.--
  • "Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population. The years in question, the most violent in the recent history of the region, began during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks, and ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, mass rape, and brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation"--Provided by publisher.
Alternative Title
Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [641]-643) and index.
Contents
Abdülhamid II. Nationalist awakenings in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire -- The massacres of 1894-1896 -- The Young Turks. A more Turkish Empire -- The eastern river -- The western river, and downstream -- A policy of genocide -- Mustafa Kemal and the Nationalists. Historical background, 1918-1924 -- Turks and Armenians, 1919-1924 -- Turks and Greeks, 1919-1924.
Call Number
JFE 19-9198
ISBN
  • 9780674916456
  • 067491645X
LCCN
  • 2018028342
  • 40029021798
OCLC
1044768992
Author
Morris, Benny, 1948- author.
Title
The thirty-year genocide : Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924 / Benny Morris & Dror Ze'evi.
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [641]-643) and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1999
Added Author
Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953- author.
Other Standard Identifier
40029021798
Research Call Number
JFE 19-9198
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