Genocide in the Ottoman Empire von George N Shirinian

<p> 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 Empires 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.</p>

George N. Shirinian is Executive Director of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, a division of the Zoryan Institute. His publications includeStudies in Comparative Genocideand The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 19131923.

List of Illustrations PrefaceIntroductionGeorge N. ShirinianPART I: CONTEXTSChapter 1. The Background to the Late Ottoman GenocidesGeorge N. ShirinianChapter 2. Convulsions at the End of Empire: Thrace, Asia Minor, and the AegeanDikran KaligianChapter 3. Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire and the Official Turkish Policy of Their Extermination, 1890s-1918Anahit KhosroyevaPART II: DOCUMENTATION AND EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTSChapter 4. Considering Genocide Testimony: Three Case StudiesPaul BartropChapter 5. The Assyrian Issue 1914-1935: Australian Documents and PressStavros StavridisChapter 6. American Women, Massacres, and the Admiral: Deep in Anatolia during the Turkish Nationalist RevolutionRobert ShenkChapter 7. Found in Translation: Eyewitness Accounts of the Massacres in Nicomedia as Reported by Greek Journalist Kostas FaltaitsEleni PhufasChapter 8. The Destruction of Smyrna in 1922: An Armenian and Greek Shared TragedyTehmine MartoyanPART III: LEGACIES AND INTERPRETATIONSChapter 9. Lemkin on Three Genocides: Comparing His Writings on the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek GenocidesSteven Leonard JacobsChapter 10. The Ottoman Genocide of the Armenians and Greeks: The Similarities and Structural PeculiaritiesGevorg VardanyanChapter 11. The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks 1913-1923: Myths and FactsThea HaloChapter 12. Redeeming the Unredeemed: The Anglo-Hellenic League's Campaign for the Greeks in Asia MinorGeorgia KoutaChapter 13. Genocide by Deportation into Poverty: Western Diplomats on Ottoman Christian Killings and Expulsions, 1914-1924Hannibal TravisChapter 14. The Socio-Psychological Dimension of the Armenian GenocideSuren Manukyan Bibliography Index

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