Chapter 1 How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction: Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World War 1
6. Chapter 1 How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide? 33
7. Chapter 2 Sayfo Genocide: The Culmination of an Anatolian Culture of Violence 54
8. Chapter 3 The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 70
9. Chapter 4 Mor Dionysios ‘Abd an-Nur Aslan: Church Leader during a Genocide 100
10. Chapter 5 Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918–26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey 113
11. Chapter 6 Sayfo, Firman, Qafle: The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac Christians 132
12. Chapter 7 A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro D-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran) 148
13. Chapter 8 Interpretation of the ‘Sayfo’ in Gallo Shabo’s Poem 157
14. Chapter 9 The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo: An Inter-generational Transmission of Fear and Distrust 178
15. Chapter 10 Sayfo and Denialism: A New Field of Activity for Agents of the Turkish Republic 205
16. Chapter 11 Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide 219
17. Chapter 12 Who Killed Whom? A Comparison of Political Discussions in France and Sweden about the Genocide of 1915 233
18. Index 255