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The Armenians of Aintab - The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Hardcover)
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The Armenians of Aintab - The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Hardcover)
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A Turk's discovery that Armenians once thrived in his hometown
leads to a groundbreaking investigation into the local dynamics of
genocide. UEmit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was
astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active
Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab, the city's
name during the Ottoman period, had not only been destroyed-it had
been replaced. To every appearance, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish
city. Kurt digs into the details of the Armenian dispossession that
produced the homogeneously Turkish city in which he grew up. In
particular, he examines the population that gained from ethnic
cleansing. Records of land confiscation and population transfer
demonstrate just how much new wealth became available when the
prosperous Armenians-who were active in manufacturing, agricultural
production, and trade-were ejected. Although the official rationale
for the removal of the Armenians was that the group posed a threat
of rebellion, Kurt shows that the prospect of material gain was a
key motivator of support for the Armenian genocide among the local
Muslim gentry and the Turkish public. Those who benefited
most-provincial elites, wealthy landowners, state officials, and
merchants who accumulated Armenian capital-in turn financed the
nationalist movement that brought the modern Turkish republic into
being. The economic elite of Aintab was thus reconstituted along
both ethnic and political lines. The Armenians of Aintab draws on
primary sources from Armenian, Ottoman, Turkish, British, and
French archives, as well as memoirs, personal papers, oral
accounts, and newly discovered property-liquidation records.
Together they provide an invaluable account of genocide at ground
level.
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