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Book SynopsisTurkey'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 ratification. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and eye-witness testimony...
Trade Review “This volume is the most comprehensive and analytical work to address the Armenian genocide from legal-criminal perspective to date. …[It] should be regarded as an important contribution to the field of Armenian genocide studies, Ottoman legal history, and the history of War Tribunals… It provides readers with a compelling argument about the historical veracity of the Armenian genocide.” • The Cyprus Review
“Dadrian’s and Akçam’s handbook must already be considered as an indispensable tool for all who are dealing with the Armenian genocide but also for all those who are involved with the judicial processing of ‘crimes against humanity’ in the international context of the 20th Century.” • Neue Historische Literatur
“This book [by Vahakn Dadrian and Taner Akçam, one Armenian, one Turkish, both noted scholars of the Armenian Genocide] stands as a monument of original scholarship on the facts of the Genocide. The wealth of specific citations, the multiplicity of sources surveyed make this volume an invaluable and fundamental source for any future study.” • The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
“…an exhaustive and definitive treatment of the rise and demise of these trials,.. The book offers meticulous accounts of the Ottoman collapse in 1918 and the question of postwar punitive justice, the preparations, initiation, proceedings, and conditions of the courts-martial, and finally examines the societal context in which the tribunal operated. The authors must be commended for their assiduous engagement with a range of sources. The most innovative of these are articles from the Ottoman press in the armistice, which clearly demonstrate that condemnation of the Armenian genocide was ubiquitous in Ottoman society… a useful reference book this volume was highly due and will prove indispensable for any student of the Armenian genocide.” • H-Soz-u-Kult
Table of Contents Ottoman-Turkish Words and Names
Preface
Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
PART I: THE CONDITIONS SURROUNDING THE TRIALS
Chapter 1. History of the Turko-Armenian Conflict
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 2. Military Defeat and the Victors’ Drive for Punitive Justice
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 3. The Preparations for Court-Martial
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 4. The Initiation of Courts-Martial
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 5. Emergent Kemalism and the Courts-Martial
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 6. The Series of Major Trials and the Related Verdicts: The Falsification of the Arguments of “Relocation,” “Civil War” and “Intercommunal Clashes”
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 7. Legal Proceedings as a Conceptual Framework
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 8. A Summary of the Conditions Surrounding the Trials
Vahakn N. Dadrian
PART II: THE TRIALS AND BEYOND
Chapter 9. The Full Texts in English of the Indictments and Verdicts
Chapter 10. 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
Chapter 11. Death Sentences Handed Down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul
Taner Akçam
Chapter 12. Coverage of the Trials by the Istanbul Turkish Press
Taner Akçam
Chapter 13. Formation and Operation of the Ottoman Military Tribunals
Taner Akçam
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
