The Greek Genocide, 1913-1923:New Perspectives
Author : The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781792303517
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
Author : George N. Shirinian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785334336
Book Description
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.
The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide
Author : George Shirinian
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 9781467534963
Book Description
"This book presents a series of studies by distinguished specialists related to the "Great Catastrophe," or the "Asia Minor Catastrophe," experienced by the Greeks of Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace during the turbulent years leading to the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923. The term is used to describe the persecution of the Greek minority in the Ottoman Empire, their expulsion, the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the destruction of the 3,000-year-long Greek presence in those lands."--Introd.
Let Them Not Return
Author : David Gaunt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785334999
Book Description
The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “Sayfo” (literally, “sword” in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.
Collective and State Violence in Turkey
Author : Stephan Astourian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789204518
Book Description
Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century—from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today—but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence. In particular, the construction of a Muslim-Turkish identity has been achieved in part by designating “internal enemies” at whom public hatred can be directed. This volume provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of such violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.
Not Even My Name
Author : Thea Halo
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429974761
Book Description
A riveting account of exile from Turkish genocide, brought to light for the first time ever in Sano Halo's personal story Not Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after WW I in Turkey, which brought to a tragic end the 3000-year history of the Pontic Greeks (named for the Pontic Mountain range below the Black Sea). During this time, almost 2 million Pontic Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered and millions of others were exiled. Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival, as told to her daughter, Thea, and of their trip to Turkey in search of Sano's home 70 years after her exile. Sano Halo was a 10-year-old girl when she was torn from her ancient, pastoral way of life in the mountains and sent on a death march that annihilated her family. Stripped of everything she had ever held dear, even her name, Sano was sold by her surrogate family into marriage when still a child to a man three times her age. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children in New York City, and her transformation as an innocent girl who was forced to move from a bucolic life to the 20th century in one bold stride. Written in haunting and eloquent prose, Not Even My Name weaves a seamless texture of individual and group memory, evoking all the suspense and drama of the best told tales.
The Spirit of the Laws
Author : Taner Akçam
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782386246
Book Description
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.
Survivor Testimonies of the Greek Genocide 1913-1923
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
This publication of survivor testimonies from Asia Minor and Pontos in English is the largest effort by the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center, Inc. (AMPHRC), a non-profit organization founded in 2011 in Chicago, IL. The source of selected surviror testimonies is the five volumes printed in Greek by The Center of Asia Minor Studies (CMS), Athens, Greece that was a major undertaking starting in 1930 and lasting about 30 years. The survivor testimonies play a crucial role in understanding what occurred before, during and after the Great Catastrophe. As Prof. Paul Bartrop has noted: Testimonial accounts, by virtue of their special status as first hand narratives written by peiple who lived through barbaric treatment at the hands of their persecutors, are our primary link to the perpetrators as viewed from the victims' perspective. As such, all accounts are vitally important documents which must be considered and respected as historical data. The view put in this paper is that there is merit in every survivor account, and that we therefore need to examine how testimonies may be asserssed as sources of history.
The Great Betrayal
Author : Edward Hale Bierstadt
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 1924
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Late Ottoman Genocides
Author : Dominik J. Schaller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317990455
Book Description
The Armenian Genocide has lately attracted a lot of attention, despite the Turkish government's attempts at denial. It has been developed into a central obstacle to Turkey's entry into the European Union. As such it attracts the highest political and public attention. What is largely ignored in the debate, however, is the fact that Armenians were not the only victims of the Young Turk's genocidal population policies. What is still largely forgotten is the murder, expulsion and deportation of other ethnic groups like Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds and Arabs by the Young Turks. This not only increases the number of victims, but also changes the perspective on the foundation of modern Turkey and as such on modern Turkish history more generally. The Thematic Issue of the JGR, the republication of which is proposed here, is the first publication, which addresses these wider issues. It contributes not only to our understanding of the Young Turks' population and extermination policies in all its complexities and so helping to bring the forgotten victims' stories "back" into genocide scholarship, but to our understanding of modern Turkey more generally. It is an indispensable tool for everybody interested in one of the great historical controversies of our time. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.
