Confiscation and destruction
Subtitle: the Young Turk seizure of Armenian property
By: Ug ur U mit U ngo r and Mehmet Polatel
Contributors: Polatel, Mehmet
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781441110206; 9781441135780
Subjects: Turkey; Social life and customs; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923; I ttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti; Fiction; Press and politics; Nationalism; Confiscations; History
Description: This is the first major study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide. It details the emergence of Turkish economic nationalism, offers insight into the economic ramifications of the genocidal process, and describes how the plunder was organized on the ground. The interrelated nature of property confiscation initiated by the Young Turk regime and its cooperating local elites offers new insights into the functions and beneficiaries of state-sanctioned robbery. Drawing on secret files and unexamined records, the authors ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-219) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and problemization; title: Ideological foundations: constructing the Turkish 'national economy'; title: Legal foundations: using the justice system for injustice; title: The dispossession of Ottoman Armenians; title: Adana: the cotton belt; title: Diyarbekir: the land of copper and silk; title: Conclusion.