Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I

David Gaunt

• Verlag: Gorgias Press
• Jahr: 2006
• ISBN:
  9781463210816
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Geschichte
• Thema: Geschichte des Nahen Ostens

This is a pioneering historical investigation of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syrian Christian minorities during World War I, who suffered the same fate as the Armenians. Ethnic cleansing and large-scale massacres occurred throughout northern Mesopotamia and parts of Ottoman-occupied Iran. Based on primary sources from official archives, as well as hitherto unused manuscript sources and oral histories published here for the first time, this book attempts to give a full picture of the events of 1915. The book concentrates on the Assyrians of Urmia and Hakkari and on the Syrians of Diyarbekir province, particularly in Tur Abdin.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Summary
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction and Background
• 2. Setting the Stage: Kurds and Turks, Armenians and Syriacs
• 3. The Road to the Fatal Solution
• 4. Playing with Fire: Occupied Urmia
• 5. The Ethnic Cleansing of the Hakkari Mountains
• 6. Anatolia’s Heart of Darkness
• 7. The Destruction of Midyat
• 8. Sayfo: The General Massacre of Northern Mesopotamia
• 9. The Battle for Azakh
• 10. Implications and Conclusions
• 11. Notes on the Sources
• Appendix 1. Oral Testimony on Tur Abdin 1914–15
• Appendix 2. Documents on the Syriac Population
• Appendix 3. Documents on the Number of Victims
• Appendix 4. Turkish Archival Documents on Deportations and Sieges
• Bibliography
• Indexes