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 Akcam'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 Akcam 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."
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