{"product_id":"the-thirtyyear-genocide-turkeys-destruction-of-its-christian-minorities-18941924","title":"The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkeys Destruction of Its Christian Minorities  18941924","description":"\u003cp\u003eA reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire  and then the Turkish Republic  against their Christian minorities.  Between 1894 and 1924  three waves of violence swept across Anatolia  targeting the regions Christian minorities  who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924  the Armenians  Assyrians  and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct  isolated events  and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single  continuing  and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolias Christian population.  The years in question  the most violent in the recent history of the region  began during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II  continued under the Young Turks  and ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the postWorld War I period  the nations annihilationist policies were remarkably constant  with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing  homicidal deportation  forced conversion  mass rape  and brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam  the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.  Revelatory and impeccably researched  Benny Morris and Dror Zeevis account is certain to transform how we see one of modern historys most horrific events.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946441863221,"sku":"ByrdShop_067491645X","price":39.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674916456.jpg?v=1769949163","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-thirtyyear-genocide-turkeys-destruction-of-its-christian-minorities-18941924","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}