THE THIRTY - YEAR GENOCIDE
TURKEY'S DISTRUCTION OF ITS
CHRISTIAN MINORITIES 1894 -1924
CHRISTIAN MINORITIES 1894 -1924
Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks 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. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.
2019 HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN-13: 9780674916456