TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akçam,Taner
AU  - Kurt,Umit
TI  - The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide 
T2  - War and Genocide
SN  - 9781782386230
AV  - DR435.A7 A53513 2015
U1  - 956.6/20154 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Armenian question
KW  - Armenians
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Relocation
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Pillage
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Genocide History, History: World War I
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386247?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386247
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386247/original
ER  -