The End of the Ottomans

The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism

Hans-Lukas Kieser, Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Seyhan Bayraktar, Thomas Schmutz, Hans-Lukas Kieser, Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Seyhan Bayraktar, Thomas Schmutz

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780755635979
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786725981
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

In the early part of the twentieth century, as Europe began its descent into the First World War, the Ottoman world – once the largest Empire in the Middle East – began to experience a revolution which would culminate in the new, secular Turkish state. Alongside this, in 1915, as part of an increasing nationalism, it enacted a genocide against its Armenian citizens. In this new study, Hans-Lukas Kieser marshals a dazzling array of scholars to re-evaluate the approach and legacy of the Young Turks – whose eradication of the Armenians from Asia Minor would have far-reaching consequences. Kieser argues that genocide led to today's crisis-ridden Middle East and set in place a rigid state system whose effects are still felt in Turkey today.Featuring new and groundbreaking work on the role of bureaucracy, the actors outside of Istanbul and re-centreing Armenian agency in the genocide, The End of the Ottomans is a vital new study of the Ottoman world, the Armenian Genocide and of the Middle East.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Maps and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Unhealed Wounds, Perpetuated Patterns Hans-Lukas Kieser and Margaret Lavinia Anderson
• Part One The Matrix and Politics of Genocide
• 1 Mehmed Talaat: Demolitionist Founder of Post-Ottoman Turkey Hans-Lukas Kieser
• 2 The War at the Caucasus Front: A Matrix for Genocide Candan Badem
• 3 Requiem for a Thug: Aintabli Abdulkadir and the Special Organization Hilmar Kaiser
• 4 Tahsin Uzer: The CUP’s Man in the East Hilmar Kaiser
• Part Two Performing Genocide on the Spot
• 5 The State, Local Actors and Mass Violence in Bitlis Province Mehmet Polatel
• 6 Scenes from Angora, 1915: The Commander, the Bureaucrats and Muslim Notables during the Armenian Genocide Hilmar Kaiser
• Part Three The Empire’s Darkest Hour
• 7 Zohrab and Vartkes: Ottoman Deputies and Armenian Reformers Raymond H. Kévorkian
• 8 Honour and Shame: The Diaries of a Unionist and the ‘Armenian Question’ Ozan Ozavci
• 9 A Rescuer, an Enigma and a Génocidaire: Cemal Pasha Ümit Kurt
• 10 ‘The Very Limit of Our Endurance’: Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria during the First World War Khatchig Mouradian
• Part Four Unmaking the Empire, Shaping the Turkish Nation
• 11 Proactive Local Perpetrators: Mehmet Yasin (Sani Kutluğ) and Ahmed Faik (Erner) Ümit Kurt
• 12 From Aintab to Gaziantep: The Reconstitution of an Elite on the Ottoman Periphery Ümit Kurt
• Afterword: Talaat’s Empire: A Backward Country, but a State Well Ahead of Its Time Hamit Bozarslan
• Chronology
• Index
• Index1
• Copyright