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The Thirty-Year Genocide
Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
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Benny Morris
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English
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2019
About this book
From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.
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A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events…A richly textured and highly sensitive study…The authors document, in painstaking detail and with constant reference to their key arguments, the centrally planned murder and deportation of Christians throughout Turkey.
-- Times Literary Supplement
-- Times Literary Supplement
Offers a subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering.
-- New York Times Book Review
-- New York Times Book Review
Again and again, I was brought up short by the sheer, terrible, shocking accounts of violence in Morris’s and Zeevi’s work… Is it possible for a people to be so inured to cruelty that they changed, that their acts of sadism could alter their humanity?
-- The Independent
-- The Independent
Gut-wrenching…Morris and Ze’evi convey well the horror of the killings.
-- Foreign Affairs
-- Foreign Affairs
In well over six hundred pages the authors detail, town by town and village by village, the atrocities that led to the elimination of Christians from Turkey…A monumental achievement.
-- Commonweal
-- Commonweal
The mass killings of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians in the late Ottoman era and early 1920s have been the subject of several excellent studies in recent years. The Israeli historians Morris and Ze’evi add value by knitting together the three main episodes of violent persecution in a comprehensive narrative.
-- Financial Times
-- Financial Times
Brilliantly researched and written…Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi cast a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects. They emphasize that the three waves of violence against the Christians living in Anatolia were not spasmodic or distinct, but formed part of a larger and coherent plan to destroy them utterly. Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews from the face of the Earth.
-- The Spectator
-- The Spectator
Important and ambitious…They break new ground in the attempt to tie various massacres and atrocities at different times and places into a seamless genocidal web extending on and off for thirty years…Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi have done a great service to the study of comparative genocide.
-- David Gaunt Bustan
-- David Gaunt Bustan
The evidence cited in this well-researched book is overwhelming…By looking at previously isolated events in a broader view, Morris and Ze’evi open new horizons on these events. What they reveal has global implications.
-- Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Middle East Quarterly
-- Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Middle East Quarterly
Remarkable…A warning from history, perhaps, that this incisive work transmits to us in these dark days of political turmoil.
-- Jewish Chronicle
-- Jewish Chronicle
A must read for anyone interested in the tragic events and history which inevitably shaped the modern world.
-- National Herald
-- National Herald
An exhaustive account of Turkish policies towards Christians from the waning years of the Ottoman Caliphate through the first decade of Atatürk’s rule.
-- National Interest
-- National Interest
Forces me to re-examine my understanding of the Armenian Genocide…It will stand in both the historical records of nations and in the field of Genocide studies as a monumental marker of excellence.
-- Massis Post
-- Massis Post
The book’s strength lies in the fact that it has a broader perspective than many other books on the subject… Morris and Ze’evi have given us an outstanding representation of the fate of the Christian minorities during this crucial thirty-year period.
-- Svenska Dagbladet
-- Svenska Dagbladet
The proof in this well-researched book is overwhelming…Hugely important.
-- Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Neue Politische Literatur
-- Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Neue Politische Literatur
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eBook published on:
April 24, 2019
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9780674240070
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636
eBook ISBN:
9780674240070
Keywords for this book
Constantinople; George Curzon; Ethnic cleansing; Greece; Mustafa Kemal; Kurds; Ottoman Empire; Turkey; Armenian genocide; Armenian revolutionary federation
