Title: Great catastrophe : Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide /
Authors: De Waal, Thomas.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 Influence.; Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 Political aspects.; Memory Political aspects Armenia.; Memory Political aspects Turkey.; Collective memory Turkey.; Genocide Political aspects Case studies.; HISTORY Asia General.; HISTORY Europe Former Soviet Republics.; HISTORY Modern 20th Century.; Armenier.; Völkermord; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Armenia Relations Turkey.; Turkey Relations Armenia.; Turkey Ethnic relations.; Armenien; Türkei
Abstract: "The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a brutal mass crime that prefigured other genocides in the 20th century. By various estimates, more than a million Armenians were killed and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has not been consigned to history. It is a live and divisive political issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, touches the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years. In Great Catastrophe, the eminent scholar and reporter Thomas de Waal looks at the changing narratives and politics of the Armenian Genocide and tells the story of recent efforts by courageous Armenians, Kurds, and Turks to come to terms with the disaster as Turkey enters a new post-Kemalist era. The story of what happened to the Armenians in 1915-16 is well-known.
Contents: Map 1: The Ottoman Empire in 1914 -- Map 2: Turkey in 2014 -- Introduction: Requiem in Diyarbakir -- The catastrophe -- The history -- From Van to Lausanne -- Aspects of forgetting -- Post-war politics -- Awakening -- Assailing Turkey -- A Turkish thaw -- Independent Armenia -- The protocols -- Hidden histories in Diyarbakir -- Two memorials in Istanbul.