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"Ümit Kurt explores causes and effects of the Armenian genocide in his hometown of Gaziantep, Turkey. He finds that local gentry and ordinary Turks were heavily motivated by the prospect of financial gain as Armenians were dispossessed. Newly enriched Turks then financed the young republic, elevating themselves to the status of a political elite"--
Armenians --- Armenian massacres, 1894-1896. --- Abandonment of property --- Deportation --- History. --- Citizen participation. --- Gaziantep (Turkey) --- Gaziantep (Turkey) --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government.
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A Turk’s discovery that Armenians once thrived in his hometown leads to a groundbreaking investigation into the local dynamics of genocide. Ümit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab, the city’s name during the Ottoman period, had not only been destroyed—it had been replaced. To every appearance, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish city. Kurt digs into the details of the Armenian dispossession that produced the homogeneously Turkish city in which he grew up. In particular, he examines the population that gained from ethnic cleansing. Records of land confiscation and population transfer demonstrate just how much new wealth became available when the prosperous Armenians—who were active in manufacturing, agricultural production, and trade—were ejected. Although the official rationale for the removal of the Armenians was that the group posed a threat of rebellion, Kurt shows that the prospect of material gain was a key motivator of support for the Armenian genocide among the local Muslim gentry and the Turkish public. Those who benefited most—provincial elites, wealthy landowners, state officials, and merchants who accumulated Armenian capital—in turn financed the nationalist movement that brought the modern Turkish republic into being. The economic elite of Aintab was thus reconstituted along both ethnic and political lines. The Armenians of Aintab draws on primary sources from Armenian, Ottoman, Turkish, British, and French archives, as well as memoirs, personal papers, oral accounts, and newly discovered property-liquidation records. Together they provide an invaluable account of genocide at ground level.
Armenians --- Armenian massacres, 1894-1896. --- Abandonment of property --- Deportation --- History. --- Citizen participation. --- Gaziantep (Turkey) --- Gaziantep (Turkey) --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Adana pogroms. --- Aintab gentry. --- Aleppo. --- Ali Cenani. --- Armenian genocide. --- Aryanization. --- Cilicia. --- Hama. --- Kemalist-French war. --- Kemalists. --- Lausanne Treaty. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Salamiyya. --- Turkification. --- Turkish Republic. --- Union and Progress Party (CUP). --- abandoned properties laws.
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Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity, and although Turkey has acceded through international agreements to return Armenian properties, it continues to refuse to do so. The book demonstrates that genocides do not depend on the abolition of the legal system and elimination of rights, but that, on the contrary, the perpetrators of genocide manipulate the legal system to facilitate their plans.
Armenians --- Armenian question. --- Forced migration --- Pillage --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Relocation --- Turkey
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