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The thirty-year genocide : Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924 / Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019Description: 654 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674916456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.56 23
LOC classification:
  • DR576 .M6725 2019
Contents:
Part I. Abdulhamid: Turks and Christians in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century -- 1894-1896 -- Part II. CUP: Prelude to genocide -- The Eastern river of deportation -- The Western river -- Downstream: the Syrian desert -- Part III. Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal): Historical background, 1918-1924 -- Turks and Armenians, 1919-1924 -- Turks and Greeks, 1919-1923.
Summary: 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. 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.--
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions 2019 | Acquisitions 2019-2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Abdulhamid: Turks and Christians in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century -- 1894-1896 -- Part II. CUP: Prelude to genocide -- The Eastern river of deportation -- The Western river -- Downstream: the Syrian desert -- Part III. Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal): Historical background, 1918-1924 -- Turks and Armenians, 1919-1924 -- Turks and Greeks, 1919-1923.

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.
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.--

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