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The Thirty-Year Genocide

Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

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A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924 the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to two percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.

The years in question, the most violent in the recent history of the region, began during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks, and ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, mass rape, and brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.

Revelatory and impeccably researched, Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's account is certain to transform how we see one of modern history's most horrific events.

©2019 Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genocidio y Crímenes de Guerra Política y Gobierno Oriente Medio Siglo XX Turquía Guerra y Crisis Moderna Mundial Historiografía Europa Edad media África Armenian History
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This study of what happened to the Christians from 1894 to 1924 during the Ottomans empires last years, the young Turks and Ataturk, is remarkably in its detail, while at the same time revealing the devastating scope and horror of the Genocide.

Make no mistake this was a genocide, and one of the most devastating the World has seen.

The perpetrators were motivated primarily by religious fervor and secondarily by fear of loss of territory and desire for gain of property.

The perpetrators were predominantly Muslim Turks aided by then allied Kurds. The victims were Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.

Obviously there were atrocities by the ultimate victims against the perpetrators, who would not want to defend themselves, but except for a misguided attempt by Greeks between 1919 and 1923 to gain territory in western Anatolia, Turkish attempts to blame others is completely unjustified. Even then, what Turks eventually did to the Greek population in Anatolia is not proportional to what Greeks did to Turks.

It is disturbing that Turkey not even today has accepted any responsibility for these 30 years of genocide against Christians. Contrary to the German genocide against primarily Jews during the Second World War, which Germany has accepted responsibility for, Turkey continue to deny any responsibility for events covered in this excellent book. This is completely unacceptable and by itself should prevent Turkey from being a member of international organizations like the EU.

By not accepting responsibility Turkey effectively is suggesting that the religious animosity and superiority feelings which resulted in these genocidal acts remain prevalent, and certainly the present day behavior of President Erdogan only confirms this.

This book is highly recommended and the authors deserves great appreciation for their 10 years of research into these horrible events.

Part of history needed to be told again.

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Some Turkish words are mispronounced. Some truly very badly. A Turkish speaker would have done a better job.
The body of work is excellent.

Mispronunciations

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What we often call the Armenian Genocide today turns out to be a bigger work of killing by the thousands than we often hear about. The last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the modern nation of Turkey saw a focused effort to remove all non-Muslim peoples from Anatolia under Turkish control. It was more than Armenians. It included Greek Christians, other groups of ancient Christian communities, and those of other faiths who were exiled, starved out, or simply killed. This is a work that helps understand the complicated world that is modern day Turkey and the surrounding region that includes the Kurds and other groups but few Christians. There were killings on both sides with Greece invading in the post World War I mess that was Turkey and the surrounding region. But the vast portion of the killing was at Turkish hands and the authors argue it was ordered from the highest levels of the Turkish government that eventually came under the control of Ataturk. A good listen. Some awkwardnesses with Turkish names and places but not overly distracting. Would have been inproved with more pronunciation preparation.

Exhaustive research on a story little known today

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The book is a detailed recounting of the terrible events between 1894 and 1924 that lead to the destruction of the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian communities in Anatolia. It is a story of almost endless horror with few bright spots. Nevertheless it’s very important that people know what was done and by whom.

Thorough and Depressing

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A harrowing account of the the Turkish genocide of its Christian populations at the beginning of the 20th century. To this day Turkey has not admitted or taking responsibility for this crime against humanity.

The brutality of the Turks

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