Confiscation and destruction : the young turk seizure of armenian property / Uğur Ümit Üngör and Mehment Polatel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Üngör, Uğur Ümit.

Contributor:

Polatel, Mehmet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Turkey.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Armenia--History--Revolution, 1917-1920.

Armenia.

İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti.

Armenian massacres (1915-1923).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first major study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide. It details the emergence of Turkish economic nationalism, offers insight into the economic ramifications of the genocidal process, and describes how the plunder was organized on the ground. The interrelated nature of property confiscation initiated by the Young Turk regime and its cooperating local elites offers new insights into the functions and beneficiaries of state-sanctioned robbery. Drawing on secret files and unexamined records, the authors demonstrat

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction and Problematization; 2 Ideological Foundations: Constructing the Turkish 'National Economy'; 3 Legal Foundations: Using the Justice System for Injustice; 4 The Dispossession of Ottoman Armenians; 5 Adana: The Cotton Belt; 6 Diyarbekir: The Land of Copper and Silk; 7 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Partial List of Community Property Lost by the Adana Armenians; Appendix 2 List of Turks Owning Abandoned Properties in Adana, 1924; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613163172

9781283163170

1283163179

9781441110206

1441110208

OCLC:

741492909