The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

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A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year


“A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.”
Times Literary Supplement


“Brilliantly researched and written…casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects…Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews.”
—Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post–World War I period, the nation’s annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.

“A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering.”
—Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789601616278
Publisher: S. Patakis
Publication date: 11/24/2021
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 672
File size: 3 MB
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

Ο Benny Morris (γενν. 1948) είναι ομότιμος καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου Μπεν Γκουριόν (Τμήμα Μελετών για τη Μέση Ανατολή) στο Ισραήλ, ενώ έχει διδάξει και ως Goldman Visiting Professor στο Πανεπιστήμιο Τζορτζτάουν των ΗΠΑ. Έχει γράψει σημαντικά βιβλία για την ιστορία της ισραηλοπαλαιστινιακής σύγκρουσης και έχει αρθρογραφήσει σχετικά στα έντυπα New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Republic και The Guardian. Από τις Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, στη σειρά «Διαδρομές Ιστορίας», κυκλοφορεί το έργο του Η τριακονταετής γενοκτονία: Ο αφανισμός των χριστιανικών μειονοτήτων της Τουρκίας, 1894-1924, που συνέγραψε με τον Dror Ze'evi. Ο Dror Ze'evi (γενν. 1953) είναι καθηγητής στο Τμήμα Μελετών για τη Μέση Ανατολή του Πανεπιστημίου Μπεν Γκουριόν και έχει γράψει βιβλία οθωμανικής ιστορίας και ιστορίας της Μέσης Ανατολής. Από τις Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, στη σειρά «Διαδρομές Ιστορίας», κυκλοφορεί το έργο του Η τριακονταετής γενοκτονία: Ο αφανισμός των χριστιανικών μειονοτήτων της Τουρκίας, 1894-1924, που συνέγραψε με τον Benny Morris.

Table of Contents

Glossary ix

Place Names xiii

Introduction 1

Part I Abdülhamid II

1 Nationalist Awakenings in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 15

2 The Massacres of l894-1896 44

Part II The Young Turks

3 A More Turkish Empire 137

4 The Eastern River 171

5 The Western River, and Downstream 212

6 A Policy of Genocide 244

Part III Mustafa Kemal and the Nationalists

7 Historical Background, 1918-1924 265

8 Turks and Armenians, 1919-1924 293

9 Turks and Greeks, 1919-1924 381

Conclusion 485

Abbreviations 509

Notes 511

Bibliography 623

Acknowledgments 639

Illustration Credits 641

Index 645

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