Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Akçam, Taner, 1953-

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

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

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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in the history of Genocide

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in the history of genocide.

Subjects

• Genocide
• Armenian massacres, 1909
• Armenian massacres, 1894-1896
• Genocide > Turkey > 20th century > Sources
• Armenian massacres, 1909 > Historiography
• Armenian massacres (1894-1896)
• Armenian massacres (1909)
• Historiography
• Sources
• Armenian massacres, 1894-1896 > Historiography
• Genocide > Turkey > 20th century > Historiography
• Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
• Genocide > Historiography
• Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 > Historiography
• Talât Paşa, 1874-1921
• Turkey
• 1894-1999

Genre/Form

Sources.

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-6037

ISBN

• 3319697862
• 9783319697864

LCCN

2017961007

OCLC

1005126253

Author

Akçam, Taner, 1953- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in the history of Genocide

Palgrave studies in the history of genocide.

Bibliography

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

Chronological Term

1894-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 18-6037