Confiscation and destruction : the Young Turk seizure of Armenian property

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Confiscation and destruction : the Young Turk seizure of Armenian property

Uğur Ümit Üngör and Mehmet Polatel

Continuum, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-219) and index

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This is the first major study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide. It details the emergence of Turkish economic nationalism, offers insight into the economic ramifications of the genocidal process, and describes how the plunder was organized on the ground. The interrelated nature of property confiscation initiated by the Young Turk regime and its cooperating local elites offers new insights into the functions and beneficiaries of state-sanctioned robbery. Drawing on secret files and unexamined records, the authors demonstrate that while Armenians suffered systematic plunder and destruction, ordinary Turks were assigned a range of property for their progress.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction: theoretical perspectives on genocide and property transfer
  • 2. Ideological foundations: constructing the Turkish national economy
  • 3. Legal foundations: using the justice system for injustice
  • 4. The dispossession of Armenians during the genocide, 1915-1918
  • 5. Adana: the cotton belt
  • 6. Mamuret-ul Aziz: the settler colony outpost
  • 7. Diyarbekir: the land of copper and silk
  • 8. Conclusions.

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