The Extermination Of Armenians İn The Diarbekir Region Kitabı

The Extermination of Armenians in the Diarbekir Region is a study based largely on neglected sources from Turkish and Armenian archives covering the years 1908 to 1915. It discusses the rise of the “Committee of Union and Progress,” the nascent Kurdish nationalist movement, and the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenian population. The deportation and massacre of Armenians was a complex process with central authorities in Istanbul, regional governors, and local elites competing for control. Consequently, decision-making, deportations, assimilation policies, the seizure of Armenian properties as well as the settlement of Kurdish and other Muslim groups appear in a new light. Rather than following a strict preconceived plan, Ottoman authorities regularly implemented ill-defined policies. Often they followed suggestions from governors.

Consequently, local officials had a more radicalizing impact on overall anti-Armenian policies than hitherto assumed. Many others, however, offered determined resistance. Neither the “Committee of Union and Progress” nor the Ottoman bureaucracy had unified in persecuting Armenians. The book does not present the developments in the region in a dichotomous perspective but emphasizes complexities beyond the governing paradigms and opens new avenues for research and discussion..

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE

CHAPTER 1 Social Conflict

Industry

Population

CHAPTER 2 The ‘Old Order’ in Diarbekir Province:

Urban Notables and Rural Tribes

The 1905 Coup

The 1907 Coup

CHAPTER 3 The CUP’s Rise to Power

CHAPTER 4 The Assault on the Milli Confederation

Atrocities Committed Against the Sharkian Tribe

The Aftermath of the Atrocities

CHAPTER 5 Local Politics

The Kurdish Club

CHAPTER 6 Kurdish Resistance to CUP Rule in Diarbekir Province, 1909-1914

PART TWO

CHAPTER 7 The Last Months of Peace

Mobilization and Requistions

The Diarbekir Fire

Internal Security in Diarbekir Province

CHAPTER 8 The Early Months of the War

CHAPTER 9 The Appointment of Governor Reshid Bey

CHAPTER 10 The Alleged Armenian Threat

CHAPTER 11 The Creation of a Terrorist Organization

A ‘Two-Track System’ of Government?

CHAPTER 12 Targeting the Armenian Elite

Further Arms Searches

Was Diarbekir an Armenian Revolutionary Center?

The Murder of Arshag Vramian

The Annihilation of Diarbekir’s Armenian Elite

The Annihilation of Ottoman Armenian Leaders in Diarbekir Province

The Murder of Krikor Zohrab and Vartges Serengulian

The Hunt for the Killers

Decorations

Justifications

CHAPTER 13 Reshid Bey and American Missionaries

‘A Suspicious Death’

The Case of Albert Atkinson

CHAPTER 14 Deportations

The Experiences of Armenian Deportees

Ottoman-German Opposition Against Reshid Bey at Mosul

Reshid Bey’s Agenda

The Limits of Central Government Coordination

Micro Managing?

The Death Toll

CHAPTER 15 Exemptions

CHAPTER 16 Armenian Property

CHAPTER 17 The Failed ‘Turkification’ of Diarbekir Province

CHAPTER 18 Mardin

Expelling Mardin’s American Missionaries

CHAPTER 19 Midiat

CHAPTER 20 Hazak - Djezire

CHAPTER 21 The Fringe of the Desert

Tell Arman

Kesor

CHAPTER 22 Severek District

Veranshehir

CHAPTER 23 Urfa

19 August 1915

The Annihilation of the Armenian Labor Battalion Soldiers

CHAPTER 24 Rasulain

CHAPTER 25 The Assassinations of Husein Nesimi Bey and Ali Sabid Bey

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Yazar: Hilmar Kaiser

Yayınevi: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları

ISBN: 9786053993339

Boyut: 16x23 cm

Sayfa Sayısı: 464

Basım Yılı: 2014

Basım Yeri: İstanbul

Cilt Durumu: Karton kapak

Kağıt Türü: 1. hamur

Dil: İngilizce