When Perpetual Persecution Becomes Ottoman Genocide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19540993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gaunt (Södertörn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bustan The Middle East Book Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-5301 • E-ISSN: 1878-5328 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/bustan.11.1.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3083864149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A review of Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's The Thirty-Years Genocide deals with the experience of Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek minorities in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. The thesis of a long genocide challenges the international law concept of genocide while reopening a line of interpretation of long-standing persecution that is close to Christian memory, but far from contemporary historians' emphasis on political decision-making. The review specifically deals with the Assyrians who were less of a passive victim than Morris and Ze'evi maintain
Ancient history · Armenian · Genocide · Persecution · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |