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The Spirit of the Laws : The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide / Umit Kurt, Taner Akçam.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: War and Genocide ; 21Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782386230
  • 9781782386247
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.6/20154 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • DR435.A7 A53513 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Laws and Decrees of the Committee of Union and Progress Period -- Chapter 2 The Armistice Period and the Returning Armenians -- Chapter 3 The Turkish Republic Prior to Lausanne -- Chapter 4 The Treaty of Lausanne: A Turning Point -- Chapter 5 After Lausanne: The Armenians Remaining Outside of Turkey -- Chapter 6 Turkey after Lausanne: Raising a Virtual Wall around Its Borders Like a Fortress -- Chapter 7 Domestic Legal Regulations during the Republican Perio -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Laws and Decrees of the Committee of Union and Progress Period -- Chapter 2 The Armistice Period and the Returning Armenians -- Chapter 3 The Turkish Republic Prior to Lausanne -- Chapter 4 The Treaty of Lausanne: A Turning Point -- Chapter 5 After Lausanne: The Armenians Remaining Outside of Turkey -- Chapter 6 Turkey after Lausanne: Raising a Virtual Wall around Its Borders Like a Fortress -- Chapter 7 Domestic Legal Regulations during the Republican Perio -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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