A responsibility to protest? The public, the Powers and the Armenians in the era of Abdülhamit II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6196841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Lavinia Anderson (0000-0003-1245-2445, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-283 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Genocide Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-3528 • E-ISSN: 1469-9494 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14623528.2015.1062281 |
| OpenAlex | W1908838664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
The famous trial of the Kurdish chieftain Musa Bey, whose crimes and acquittal in 1889 embodied for many the insecurities and inequities faced daily by Armenians in eastern Anatolia, opened a period of crisis between the Armenian population and the Ottoman Muslim majority, one culminating in massacres over the next decade that took some 200,000 lives. Contrary to those who believe that Armenians were victims of Great Power diplomacy, or that Western public outrage, by encouraging Armenian militants to provoke massacres in hopes of intervention, was at least co-responsible for the horrors, the article argues that the massacres were an outgrowth of Abdülhamit's insecurities, driven by a deepening crisis of Ottoman legitimacy and identity, and spurred in part by previous reforms proclaiming civic equality. The interactions between public opinion, European diplomacy and the Ottomans, as well as comparisons from across the Atlantic, reveal real dilemmas of humanitarian conscience too often ignored by works such as Samantha Power’s influential ‘A problem from hell'. Some problems, they suggest, are beyond intervention
Ancient history · Armenian · Criminology · Diplomacy · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Public Diplomacy · Public opinion · Sociology · History · Law · Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
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History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
The Well-Protected Domains
Death and Exile
On the Genealogy of the Armenian–Turkish Conflict, Sultan Abdülhamid and the Armenian Massacres
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Lord Salisbury and the Ottoman Massacres
A Theoretical Inquiry into the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |