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Author Dadrian, Vahakn N

Title Judgment at Istanbul : the Armenian genocide trials / by Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
Edition English-language ed
Published New York : Berghahn Books, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages)
Contents History of the Turko-Armenian conflict / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Military defeat and the victors' drive for punitive justice / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The preparations for court-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The initiation of courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Emergent Kemalism and the courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The series of major trials and the related verdicts : the falsification of the arguments of "relocation," "civil war" and "intercommunal clashes" / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Legal proceedings as a conceptual framework / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- A summary of the conditions surrounding the trials / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- The full texts in English of the indictments and verdicts -- The judicial liquidation of some of the arch perpetrators by both CUP and the Kemalist authorities and the demise of other accomplices / Vahakn N. Dadrian -- Death sentences handed down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul / Taner Akçam -- Coverage of the trials by the Istanbul Turkish press / Taner Akçam -- Formation and operation of the Ottoman military tribunals / Taner Akçam
Summary Turkey's bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative tr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
SUBJECT Komitee für Einheit und Fortschritt gnd
Subject Trials (Genocide) -- Turkey -- Istanbul
War crime trials -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Armenians -- Crimes against -- Turkey
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923
Genocide -- Turkey
Genocide -- Armenia
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Armenians -- Crimes against
Genocide
Trials (Genocide)
War crime trials
Armenier
Kriegsverbrecher
Kriegsverbrecherprozess
Prozess
Völkermord
Armenia
Turkey
Turkey -- Istanbul
Osmanisches Reich
Türkei
Armenier.
Form Electronic book
Author Akçam, Taner, 1953-
LC no. 2011014734
ISBN 085745286X
9780857452863
9786613395153
6613395153
1283395150
9781283395151