Killing orders : Talat Pasha's telegrams and the Armenian genocide / Taner Akçam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akçam, Taner, 1953- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of genocide

Palgrave studies in the history of Genocide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talât Paşa, 1874-1921.

Talât Paşa.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Armenian massacres, 1909--Historiography.

Armenian massacres, 1909.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Historiography.

Armenian massacres, 1894-1896--Historiography.

Armenian massacres, 1894-1896.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xviii, 261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armanian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidence surrounding it. This book provides a major clarification of the often blurred lines between facts and truth in regard to these events. The authenticity of the killing orders signed by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha and the memoirs of the Ottomon bureaucrat Naim Efendi have been two of the most contested topics in this regard. The denialist school has long argued that these documents and memoirs were all forgeries, produced by Armenians to further their claims. Taner Akc̦am provides the evidence to refute the basis of these claims and demonstrates clearly why the documents can be trusted as authentic, revealing the genocidal intent of the Ottoman-Turkish government towards its Armenian population. As such, this work removes a cornerstone from the denialist edifice, and further establishes the historicity of the Armenian Genocide--back cover.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The story and authenticity of Naim Efendi and his memoirs

Even if the memoirs are authentic, could the documents still be forgeries?

Subjects and events mentioned by Naim Efendi corroborated in Ottoman documents

Appendix A

Appendix B: Dr. Avedis Nakkashian's letter to Andonian

Appendix C: Aram Andonian's letter to Mary Terzian

Appendix D: Consul W. Rössler's letter to Dr. Lepsius

Appendix E: Memorandum to the lawyers of Soghomon Tehlirian

Afterword

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.

ISBN:

3319697862

9783319697864

OCLC:

1005126253