TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akçam,Taner
TI  - The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire 
T2  - Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
SN  - 9780691159560
AV  - DS195.5 .A4189 2017
U1  - 956.62023 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
KW  - Armenian question
KW  - Armenians
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Genocide
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aegean region
KW  - Anatolia
KW  - Armenian Catholics
KW  - Armenian Genocide
KW  - Armenian Protestants
KW  - Armenian annihilation
KW  - Armenian deportations
KW  - Armenian evacuation
KW  - Armenian policy
KW  - Armenian population
KW  - Armenian property
KW  - Armenian statehood
KW  - Balkan states
KW  - Black Sea region
KW  - Byzantium
KW  - Christian communities
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christians
KW  - Cilicia
KW  - Committee of Union and Progress
KW  - English
KW  - European states
KW  - Great War
KW  - Greece
KW  - Greek expulsion
KW  - Holocaust
KW  - Interior Ministry Papers
KW  - Muslim Turks
KW  - Muslim groups
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - Ottoman Greeks
KW  - Ottoman Turkey
KW  - Ottoman documents
KW  - Ottoman governmment
KW  - Ottoman policies
KW  - Ottoman wartime measures
KW  - Prime Ministerian Ottoman Archive
KW  - Russian military
KW  - Russian occupation
KW  - Special Organization
KW  - Turkification
KW  - Turkish Republic
KW  - Unionist government
KW  - Unionist operatives
KW  - Unionists
KW  - War Ministry
KW  - archival record
KW  - assimilation
KW  - consular reports
KW  - demographic policy
KW  - deportation decision
KW  - deportation
KW  - diverse peoples
KW  - ethnic cleansing
KW  - ethnic groups
KW  - ethnoreligious group
KW  - forced population exchange
KW  - forcible expulsion
KW  - genocidal practice
KW  - genocide
KW  - homogenization
KW  - independence
KW  - mass murder
KW  - mass violence
KW  - massacres
KW  - nation-states
KW  - non-Turkish elements
KW  - population ratio
KW  - resettlement policy
KW  - social processes
KW  - survivor accounts
KW  - wartime policies
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; GUIDE TO OTTOMAN TURKISH WORDS AND NAMES --; ABBREVIATIONS --; ONE: Ottoman Sources and the Question of Their Being Purged --; TWO: The Plan for the Homogenization of Anatolia --; THREE: The Aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the "Emptying" of Eastern Thrace and the Aegean Littoral in 1913-14 --; FOUR: The Transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War --; FIVE: The Initial Phase of Anti-Armenian Policy --; SIX: Final Steps in the Decision-Making Process --; SEVEN: Interior Ministry Documents and the Intent to Annihilate --; EIGHT: Demographic Policy and the Annihilation of the Armenians --; NINE: Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children --; TEN: The Question of Confiscated Armenian Property --; ELEVEN: Some Official Denialist Arguments of the Turkish State and Documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry --; TWELVE: Toward a Conclusion --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a "crime against humanity and civilization," the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's "official history" rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative. The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic. By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841844?locatt=mode:legacy
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