For a brief period, the attention of the international community
has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in
Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and
massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh
Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007-2015 raised questions
about the prevention of genocide. This book, while principally
analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914-1925 and its implications
for the culture and politics of the region, also raises broader
questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the
Middle East. It gathers and analyzes the findings of a broad
spectrum of historical and scholarly works on Christian identities
in the Middle East, genocide studies, international law, and the
politics of the late Ottoman Empire, as well as the politics of the
Ottomans' British and Russian rivals for power in western Asia and
the eastern Mediterranean basin. A key question the book raises is
whether the fate of the Assyrians maps onto any of the concepts
used within international law and diplomatic history to study
genocide and group violence. In this light, the Assyrian genocide
stands out as being several times larger, in both absolute terms
and relative to the size of the affected group, than the Srebrenica
genocide, which is recognized by Turkey as well as by international
tribunals and organizations. Including its Armenian and Greek
victims, the Ottoman Christian Genocide rivals the Rwandan,
Bengali, and Biafran genocides. The book also aims to explore the
impact of the genocide period of 1914-1925 on the development or
partial unraveling of Assyrian group cohesion, including
aspirations to autonomy in the Assyrian areas of northern Iraq,
northwestern Iran, and southeastern Turkey. Scholars from around
the world have collaborated to approach these research questions by
reference to diplomatic and political archives, international legal
materials, memoirs, and literary works.
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