The Young Turks' crime against humanity: the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire/

Main Author: Akcam, Taner, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [c2012]
Series:Human rights and crimes against humanity
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ottoman sources and the question of their being purged
  • The plan for the homogenization of Anatolia
  • The aftermath of the Balkan wars and the "emptying" of eastern Thrace and the Aegean littoral in 1913-14
  • The transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War
  • The initial phase of anti-Armenian policy
  • Final steps in the decision-making process
  • Interior Ministry documents and the intent to annihilate
  • Demographic policy and the annihilation of the Armenians
  • Assimilation: the conversion and forced marriage of Christian children
  • The question of confiscated Armenian property
  • Some official denialist arguments of the Turkish state and documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry
  • Toward a conclusion.