| Edition |
English-language ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
History of the Turko-Armenian conflict / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Military defeat and the victors' drive for punitive justice / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The preparations for court-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The initiation of courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Emergent Kemalism and the courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The series of major trials and the related verdicts : the falsification of the arguments of "relocation," "civil war" and "intercommunal clashes" / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Legal proceedings as a conceptual framework / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- A summary of the conditions surrounding the trials / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The full texts in English of the indictments and verdicts -- The judicial liquidation of some of the arch perpetrators by both CUP and the Kemalist authorities and the demise of other accomplices / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Death sentences handed down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul / Taner Akçam -- Coverage of the trials by the Istanbul Turkish press / Taner Akçam -- Formation and operation of the Ottoman military tribunals / Taner Akçam. |
| Summary |
Turkey's bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative tr. |
| Language |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Trials (Genocide) -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
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War crime trials -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
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Armenians -- Crimes against -- Turkey.
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Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
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Genocide -- Turkey.
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Genocide -- Armenia.
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I. |
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Armenians -- Crimes against |
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Genocide |
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Trials (Genocide) |
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War crime trials |
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Armenia |
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Turkey |
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Turkey -- Istanbul |
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Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) |
| Added Author |
Akçam, Taner, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780857452511 0857452517 (DLC) 2011014734 |
| ISBN |
085745286X (electronic bk.) |
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9780857452863 (electronic bk.) |
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9786613395153 |
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6613395153 |
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9780857452511 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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0857452517 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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1283395150 |
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9781283395151 |
| Standard No. |
9786613395153 |
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