Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Edited by: George N. Shirinian

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785334337

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The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire’s Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.

Author / Editor information

George N. Shirinian is Executive Director of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, a division of the Zoryan Institute. His publications include Studies in Comparative Genocide and The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1913–1923.

Reviews

“This is a very timely edited volume that will fill a very significant gap in the study of Greek, Assyrian, Armenian, and Turkish history on the one hand, and, on the other, provide an analysis of the collective violence these non-Muslim minorities had been subjected to in the Ottoman Empire and later on… I heartily recommend this book to scholars interested in the histories of these communities as well as the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic; genocide scholars would also benefit from the novel framework of studying the collective violence against Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians together, from a single comparative vantage point as late Ottoman genocides.” • Slavic Review

“Overall this integrated genocide history is a valuable addition to the growing ﬁeld of genocide studies, where cases start to mingle and enter the mainstream, stimulating us to ask larger questions in dense descriptions of regions as they erupt in violence, to paraphrase Charles Joyner.” • Genocide Studies International

“This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition. It is also one of the rare books which investigates the fate of the Ottoman Christian people during World War I as a whole, as not only Armenians, but Greeks and Assyrians were also targeted by the genocide carried out by the Young Turk's Ottoman Government. In the shadow of World War I, the Young Turk's aim was to exterminate the entire Christian population.” • Assyrian International News Agency News

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
INTRODUCTION George N. Shirinian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. CONTEXTS
CHAPTER ONE. THE BACKGROUND TO THE LATE OTTOMAN GENOCIDES George N. Shirinian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
CHAPTER TWO Convulsions at the End of Empire: Thrace, Asia Minor, and the Aegean Dikran M. Kaligian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
CHAPTER THREE. ASSYRIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE OFFICIAL TURKISH POLICY OF THEIR EXTERMINATION, 1890s–1918 Anahit Khosroeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
PART II. DOCUMENTATION AND EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
CHAPTER FOUR Considering Genocide Testimony: Three Case Studies from the Armenian, Pontic, and Assyrian Genocides Paul R. Bartrop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
CHAPTER FIVE THE ASSYRIAN ISSUE 1914-35 Australian Documents and Press Stavros T. Stavridis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
CHAPTER SIX. ETHNIC CLEANSING, AMERICAN WOMEN, AND THE ADMIRAL Deep in Anatolia during the Turkish Nationalist Revolution Robert Shenk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
CHAPTER SEVEN. FOUND IN TRANSLATION Eyewitness Accounts of the Massacres in Nicomedia as Reported by Greek Journalist Kostas Faltaits Ellene S. Phufas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
CHAPTER EIGHT The Destruction of Smyrna in 1922 An Armenian and Greek Shared Tragedy Tehmine Martoyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
PART III. LEGACIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
CHAPTER NINE Lemkin on Three Genocides: Comparing His Writings on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides Steven Leonard Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
CHAPTER TEN The Greek Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Parallels with the Armenian Genocide Gevorg Vardanyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE GENOCIDE OF THE OTTOMAN GREEKS, 1913–23 Myths and Facts Thea Halo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
CHAPTER TWELVE “REDEEMING THE UNREDEEMED” The Anglo-Hellenic League’s Campaign for the Greeks in Asia Minor Georgia Kouta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Genocide by Deportation into Poverty: Western Diplomats on Ottoman Christian Killings and Expulsions, 1914–24 Hannibal Travis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE Suren Manukyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 444
Keywords: Genocide History; History: 20th Century to Present

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Published: February 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785334337