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The Young Turks' crime against humanity, the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, Taner Akçam

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The Young Turks' crime against humanity

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Taner Akçam

Human rights and crimes against humanity

the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Introducing 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

Preface -- Guide to Ottoman Turkish words and names -- Abbreviations -- Ottoman sources and the question of their being purged -- The plan for the homogenization of Anatolia -- The aftermath of the Balkan wars and the "emptying" of eastern Thrace and the Aegean littoral in 1913-14 -- The transformation of Ottoman politics toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War -- The initial phase of anti-Armenian policy -- Final steps in the decision-making process -- Interior Ministry documents and the intent to annihilate -- Demographic policy and the annihilation of the Armenians -- Assimilation: the conversion and forced marriage of Christian children -- The question of confiscated Armenian property -- Some official denialist arguments of the Turkish state and documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry -- Toward a conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index