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Great Catastrophe - Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide (Paperback)
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Great Catastrophe - Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide (Paperback)
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The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16
was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million
Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the
world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of
the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is still a live and
divisive issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, shapes
the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the
attention of U.S. politicians for years. In Great Catastrophe, the
eminent scholar and reporter Thomas de Waal looks at the aftermath
and politics of the Armenian Genocide and tells the story of recent
efforts by courageous Armenians, Kurds, and Turks to come to terms
with the disaster as Turkey enters a new post-Kemalist era. The
story of what happened to the Armenians in 1915-16 is well-known.
Here we are told the "history of the history" and the lesser-known
story of what happened to Armenians, Kurds, and Turks in the
century that followed. De Waal relates how different generations
tackled the issue of the "Great Catastrophe" from the 1920s until
the failure of the Protocols signed by independent Armenia and
Turkey in 2010. Quarrels between diaspora Armenians supporting and
opposing the Soviet Union broke into violence and culminated with
the murder of an archbishop in 1933. The devising of the word
"genocide," the growth of modern identity politics, and the 50th
anniversary of the massacres re-energized a new generation of
Armenians. In Turkey the issue was initially forgotten, only to
return to the political agenda in the context of the Cold War and
an outbreak of Armenian terrorism. More recently, Turkey has
started to confront its taboos. In an astonishing revival of oral
history, the descendants of tens of thousands of "Islamized
Armenians," who have been in the shadows since 1915, have begun to
reemerge and reclaim their identities. Drawing on archival sources,
reportage and moving personal stories, de Waal tells the full story
of Armenian-Turkish relations since the Genocide in all its
extraordinary twists and turns. He looks behind the propaganda to
examine the realities of a terrible historical crime and the
divisive "politics of genocide" it produced. The book throws light
not only on our understanding of Armenian-Turkish relations but
also of how mass atrocities and historical tragedies shape
contemporary politics.
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