7. The Destruction of Midyat

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Summary v
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
4. List of Maps xi
5. List of Tables xiii
6. Preface xv
7. Abbreviations xvii
8. 1. Introduction and Background 1
9. 2. Setting the Stage: Kurds and Turks, Armenians and Syriacs 29
10. 3. The Road to the Fatal Solution 53
11. 4. Playing with Fire: Occupied Urmia 81
12. 5. The Ethnic Cleansing of the Hakkari Mountains 121
13. 6. Anatolia’s Heart of Darkness 151
14. 7. The Destruction of Midyat 181
15. 8. Sayfo: The General Massacre of Northern Mesopotamia 197
16. 9. The Battle for Azakh 273
17. 10. Implications and Conclusions 295
18. 11. Notes on the Sources 317
19. Appendix 1. Oral Testimony on Tur Abdin 1914–15 327
20. Appendix 2. Documents on the Syriac Population 405
21. Appendix 3. Documents on the Number of Victims 433
22. Appendix 4. Turkish Archival Documents on Deportations and Sieges 445
23. Bibliography 495
24. Indexes 507