The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity
{{Short description|2011 book by Taner Akçam}}
File:The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity.jpg
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire is a 2011 book by Taner Akçam, published by Princeton University Press. It discusses the role of the Young Turk movement in the Armenian genocide and other ethnic removals.
The original version of the book is in Turkish. The English version has additional content as well as revisions of the original content. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz wrote in the Jewish Political Studies Review that The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity unifies the various perspectives of the time period 1913–1918, which the book focuses upon, into one historical narrative.{{cite web|author=Schwanitz, Wolfgang G.|url=http://jcpa.org/article/young-turks-crime-humanity-armenian-genocide-ethnic-cleansing-ottoman-empire-taner-akcam/|title=The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity. The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam|work=Jewish Political Studies Review|publisher=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs|access-date=2019-06-11}} The author states that there was no single decision to eliminate Armenians but instead the momentum to kill them came at multiple stages. Several documents cited by the book had been hitherto unpublished.{{cite web|author=Strauss, Delphine|url=https://www.ft.com/content/38ede876-bb0e-11e1-81e0-00144feabdc0|title=The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam, Princeton University Press, RRP £27.95/$39.50, 528 pages|publisher=Financial Times|date=2012-06-22|access-date=2019-06-11}}
It is dedicated to Hrant Dink and to Vahakn Dadrian.{{cite book |last=Akçam |first=Taner |author-link=Taner Akçam|date=2012 |title=The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0691159560 }}
Reception
John Waterbury of Foreign Affairs wrote "the fact that a Turkish historian with access to the Ottoman archives has written this book is of immeasurable significance."{{cite journal|author=Waterbury, John|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/young-turks-crime-against-humanity-armenian-genocide-and-ethnic-cleansing|title=The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=Foreign Affairs|date=November–December 2012|volume=91 |issue=6 |access-date=2019-06-11}}
Charles Carter of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, jointly of Ohio State University and Miami University, wrote that the "multi-causal explanation of the genocide is highly convincing".{{cite web|author=Carter, Charles|url=https://origins.osu.edu/review/crime-dare-not-speak-its-name|title=The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name|work=Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective|date=June 2012|access-date=2020-04-09}}
=Journal reviews=
- {{cite journal|jstor=26986017|last1=Adalian |first1=R. P. |title=Reviewed work: The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, Taner Akçam |journal=Genocide Studies International |year=2015 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=174–178 |doi=10.1353/gsp.2015.0004 |s2cid=162820725 }}
- {{cite journal |doi=10.1080/14623528.2013.856095|title=Taner Akçam, The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012) |year=2013 |last1=Anderson |first1=M. L. |last2=Reynolds |first2=M. |last3=Kieser |first3=H. L. |last4=Balakian |first4=P. |last5=Moses |first5=A. D. |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=463–509 |s2cid=73167962 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Duran|first=H.|date=2014|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=Insight Turkey|volume=16|issue=3|pages=246–247}}
- {{cite journal|last=Kapteijns|first=L.|date=2013|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire - by Taner Akçam|journal=Domes: Digest of Middle East Studies (Online)|volume=22|issue=1|pages=198–200|doi=10.1111/dome.12017}}
- {{cite journal|last=Karsh|first=E.|date=2013|title=Ankara's Unacknowledged Genocide|journal=Middle East Quarterly|volume=20|issue=1|pages=17–26}}
- {{cite journal|last=Klein|first=J.|date=2013|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=Journal of World History|volume=24|issue=4|pages=908–913|doi=10.1353/jwh.2013.0111 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Ryan|first=S.|date=2014|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire - by Taner Akçam|journal=Historian|volume=76|issue=1|pages=160–161|doi=10.1111/hisn.12030_48}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/678755|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire. By Taner Akçam. Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity. Edited by Eric D. Weitz.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012 |year=2014 |last1=Schull |first1=K. F. |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=974–976 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Schwanitz|first=W. G.|date=2013|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=Jewish Political Studies Review|volume=25|issue=1|pages=97–102}}
- {{cite journal|last=Tonoyan|first=A. H.|date=2014|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=Journal of Church and State |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=168–169 |doi=10.1093/jcs/cst120 }}
- {{cite journal|jstor=23426736|last1=Üngör |first1=U. Ü. |title=Reviewed work: The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, Taner Akçam |journal=The American Historical Review |year=2012 |volume=117 |issue=5 |pages=1703–1704 |doi=10.1093/ahr/117.5.1703 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Üngör|first=U. Ü.|date=2014|title=Book review: The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History|volume=65|issue=1|pages=224–226|doi=10.1017/S0022046913001619}}
- {{cite journal|last=Waterbury|first=J.|date=2012|title=Recent books on international relations: Middle east: The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=91|pages=186–187}}
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
- {{cite journal|author=Kapteijns, Lidwien|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Akçam, Taner Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 483p. $39.50. |isbn=9780691153339 |doi=10.1111/dome.12017|journal=Digest of Middle East Studies|date=2013-04-16|volume=22|issue=2|pages=198–200}}
- {{Cite journal | last = Schull | first = Kent | title = Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam | journal = The Journal of Modern History | volume = 86 | issue = 4 | date = December 2014 | page = 975 | doi=10.1086/678755}}
- {{cite journal|author=Ulrichsen, Kristian Coates (Rice University)|title=The Young Turks' crime against humanity: The Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire/The fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East|journal=First World War Studies|volume=7|year=2016|issue=3|pages=336–338|doi=10.1080/19475020.2017.1297076|s2cid=159568047}} - Published online on 6 March 2017.
External links
- [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9678.html The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity] - Princeton University Press
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rt86 The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity] - Available at JSTOR
- [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/30476 The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity] - Available at Project MUSE
{{Works about the Armenian Genocide}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity, The}}
Category:2011 non-fiction books
Category:Princeton University Press books
Category:History books about the Armenian genocide
Category:History books about ethnic cleansing
Category:21st-century history books
{{turkey-hist-book-stub}}
{{armenia-genocide-stub}}