{"product_id":"the-thirty-year-genocide-turkey-s-destruction-of-its-christian-minorities-1894-1924","title":"The Thirty-Year Genocide : Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: UK, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 672\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9780674251434\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 0674251431\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974318977290,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780674251434.jpg?v=1702209202","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-thirty-year-genocide-turkey-s-destruction-of-its-christian-minorities-1894-1924","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}