Author:
Yacoub, Joseph, author.
Edition Statement:English edition.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Descriptionxvii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Note:Witnesses to Genocide: A terra incognita? ; Reporting the genocide ; The range of witnesses ; The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; International solidarity ; The national and international press : an essential intermediary ; Humanitarian aid --The Scenes and Acts of the Tragedy: A centuries-old persecution ; The first centuries ; Ottoman antecedents to the 1915 massacres ; 1915: historic Mesopotamia ; Overview of the massacres ; The invasion of Hakkari by Turco-Kurdish forces ; The Syriacs ; Extermination and deportation: the children of the D --Strategy and Methodology of Eradication: Genocide and ethnocide ; Lamenting a tragedy ; The massacres and the United Nations --After 1915: The Tragedy Continues: 1918: from Salmas and Urmia towards Hamadan and Iraq ; Assyrians at arms ; The Assyrian Levies ; The Turkey-Iraq frontier (1925) ; Fleeing Turkey --Conclusion: Returning to the Stage of History: The impact of the diaspora ; Preserving memory ; Iraq: homeland or safe haven?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-251) and index.
Note:Examines the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac peoples during World War I, offering eye-witness accounts and reports to expose the perilous fate of this Christian minority.
