PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. GUIDE TO OTTOMAN TURKISH WORDS AND NAMES xxxvii
5. ABBREVIATIONS xxxix
6. ONE: Ottoman Sources and the Question of Their Being Purged 1
7. TWO: The Plan for the Homogenization of Anatolia 29
8. THREE: The Aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the “Emptying” of Eastern Thrace and the Aegean Littoral in 1913–14 63
9. FOUR: The Transformation of Ottoman Policies toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War 97
10. FIVE: The Initial Phase of Anti-Armenian Policy 125
11. SIX: Final Steps in the Decision-Making Process 157
12. SEVEN: Interior Ministry Documents and the Intent to Annihilate 203
13. EIGHT: Demographic Policy and the Annihilation of the Armenians 227
14. NINE: Assimilation: The Conversion and Forced Marriage of Christian Children 287
15. TEN: The Question of Confiscated Armenian Property 341
16. ELEVEN: Some Official Denialist Arguments of the Turkish State and Documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry 373
17. TWELVE: Toward a Conclusion 449
18. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 453
19. INDEX 471