The murder and expulsion of Anatolian Armenians during World War I is still labelled as a "forgotten genocide". However, the fate of the Armenians has attracted significant attention and a real avalanche of books and articles on the Armenian catastrophe has been published in recent years. And although the Turkish state still denies the Armenian Genocide, the event has entered the realm of global collective memory (not least due to the impact of the internationally perceived commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 2005).
What is still largely forgotten, however, are the murder, expulsion and deportation of other ethnic groups like Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds and Arabs by the Young Turks. If at all, these victim groups’ fates are dealt with mainly in their own national histories. However, since Armenian, Assyrian, Greek and Kurdish national histories are mainly concerned with their own groups' doom the wider context is largely amiss. Furthermore, their results are lost for a wider historical scholarship. To assess the knowledge on these groups and to overcome a national historical approach is the aim of this thematic issue of the Journal of Genocide Research. It will contribute to our understanding of the Young Turks' population and extermination policies in all its complexities and help to bring the forgotten victims' stories "back" into genocide scholarship.
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Volume 10 Issue 1 has been published. This new issue contains the following articles and books reviews:
Thematic Issue: Late Ottoman Genocides: The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish Population and Extermination Policies
From the Editors: Academia and Genocide – Degrees of Culpability Henry R. Huttenbach
Notes on contributors
Abstracts
ARTICLES
Late Ottoman Genocides: The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish Population and Extermination Policies - Introduction Dominik J. Schaller & Jürgen Zimmerer
Seeing like a Nation-State: Young Turk Social Engineering in Eastern Turkey, 1913-1950 Uğur Ümit Üngör
The 1914 Cleansing of Aegean Greeks as a case of Violent Turkification Matthias Bjørnlund
Perception of the Other's Ill-Fate: What Greek Orthodox Refugees from the Ottoman Empire Reported about the Destruction of Ottoman Armenians Hervé Georgelin
A Prelude to Genocide: CUP Population Policies and Provincial Insecurity, 1908-1914 Dikran M. Kaligian
Dissolve or Punish? The International Debate amongst Jurists and Publicists on the Consequences of the Armenian Genocide for the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1923 Daniel Marc Segesser
DOCUMENTS AND DISCUSSION
Responses to Guenter Lewy’s contribution: “Can there be Genocide Withouth the Intent to Commit Genocide?”:
With Intent to Deny: On Colonial Intentions and Genocide Denial Tony Barta
If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck: Comment on “Can There Be Genocide Without the Intent to Commit Genocide?” by Guenter Lewy Norbert Finzsch
Déjà vu all over again David Stannard
REVIEW FORUM
Book under Discussion: Scott Straus’ The Order of Genocide. Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
The Order of Genocide David J. Simon
Is There an Order of Genocide? Harald Welzer
Reply to Simon and Welzer Scott Straus
BOOK REVIEWS
Hans C. von Sponeck: A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq Scott Laderman
Thérèse Delpeche: Savage Century: Back to Barbarism Henry R. Huttenbach
David Gaunt: Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I Mark Levene
Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling (eds): Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 Dan Stone
Moshe Zimmermann (ed.): On Germans and Jews under the Nazi Regime: Essays by Three Generations of Historians. A Festschrift in Honor of Otto Dov Kulka Geoff Eley
Shlomo Venezia: Sonderkommando. Dans l’enfer des chambres à gaz Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Beatriz Manz: Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope Prudencio García: El Genocidio de Guatemala a la luz de la Sociología Militar Frederick Shepherd
Mike Wessells: Child Soldiers: From Violence to Prevention R. Charli Carpenter
Steven James Bartlett: The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil John G. Heidenrich
Samuel Totten and Eric Markusen (eds): Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan Maarten van Voorst tot Voorst