The thirty-year genocide : Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924 / Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019Description: 654 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780674916456
- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
- Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
- Religious minorities -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
- Genocide -- History
- Genocide -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
- Christians -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
- Persecution. -- History
- Persecution -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
- 947.56 23
- DR576 .M6725 2019
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 947.56 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000438441 |
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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