The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity Explained

The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire is a 2011 book by Taner Akçam, published by Princeton University Press. It discusses the role of the Young Turk movement in the Armenian genocide and other ethnic removals.

The original version of the book is in Turkish. The English version has additional content as well as revisions of the original content. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz wrote in the Jewish Political Studies Review that The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity unifies the various perspectives of the time period 1913–1918, which the book focuses upon, into one historical narrative.[1] The author states that there was no single decision to eliminate Armenians but instead the momentum to kill them came at multiple stages. Several documents cited by the book had been hitherto unpublished.[2]

It is dedicated to Hrant Dink and to Vahakn Dadrian.[3]

Reception

John Waterbury of Foreign Affairs wrote "the fact that a Turkish historian with access to the Ottoman archives has written this book is of immeasurable significance."[4]

Charles Carter of , jointly of Ohio State University and Miami University, wrote that the "multi-causal explanation of the genocide is highly convincing".[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schwanitz, Wolfgang G.. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity. The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam. Jewish Political Studies Review. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. 2019-06-11.
  2. Web site: Strauss, Delphine. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam, Princeton University Press, RRP £27.95/$39.50, 528 pages. Financial Times. 2012-06-22. 2019-06-11.
  3. Book: Akçam, Taner . Taner Akçam. 2012 . The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire . . 978-0691159560 .
  4. Waterbury, John. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire. Foreign Affairs. November–December 2012. 91 . 6 . 2019-06-11.
  5. Web site: Carter, Charles. The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name. . June 2012. 2020-04-09.

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