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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Akçam, Taner (1953-....)
Titre(s) : The Young Turks' crime against humanity [Texte imprimé] : the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire / Taner Akçam
Publication : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : xlii, 483 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Collection : Human rights and crimes against humanity
Lien à la collection : Human rights and crimes against humanity
Comprend : 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 politics 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates
in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from
the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its
Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with
expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep
inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced
genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was
internationally condemned in 1915 as a 'crime against humanity and civilization,'
the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the
Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's 'official history' rests on documents from
the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently.
It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative. The
documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal
of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that
end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled,
or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads
of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic. By uncovering the central
roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide,
this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical
destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process."--book jacket
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : The Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman
Empire
Sujet(s) : Génocide arménien (1915-1923) -- Empire ottoman
Nettoyage ethnique -- Empire ottoman -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691153339 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0691153337 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42712528d
Notice n° :
FRBNF42712528
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