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The continuing work of intrepid scholars sheds light on the horrors inflicted on Armenian Christians last century.
The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century, by Bedross Der Matossian, (Stanford University Press: March 2022), 360 pages.
In August 1909, the Ottoman government in Istanbul replaced Zihni Paşa, the sitting Vali, or governor, of Adana with Ahmed Cemal Bey. Cemal Bey’s task was to deal with the fallout of massacres that had been committed primarily against the Armenian population several months earlier in April. He managed to calm some of these tensions and the chaotic attempt at justice that followed; however, Cemal Bey’s limited success was a blip on the radar screen, both his own and the Ottoman Empire’s. “It is regrettable that this is the same Cemal who just six years later would become one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide,” writes University of Nebraska, Lincoln historian Bedross Der Matossian in his new book.
The book walks the reader through the details of a few weeks in April 1909, when an estimated 20,000 Christians and two thousand Muslims were killed in sectarian and ethnic violence that was a harbinger of the larger Armenian Genocide to come six years later. Der Matossian draws on an impressive array of sources in Armenian, Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, and both Ottoman and modern Turkish to paint an all-encompassing picture of the events from the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.
Continued below.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-tragic-history/
The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century, by Bedross Der Matossian, (Stanford University Press: March 2022), 360 pages.
In August 1909, the Ottoman government in Istanbul replaced Zihni Paşa, the sitting Vali, or governor, of Adana with Ahmed Cemal Bey. Cemal Bey’s task was to deal with the fallout of massacres that had been committed primarily against the Armenian population several months earlier in April. He managed to calm some of these tensions and the chaotic attempt at justice that followed; however, Cemal Bey’s limited success was a blip on the radar screen, both his own and the Ottoman Empire’s. “It is regrettable that this is the same Cemal who just six years later would become one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide,” writes University of Nebraska, Lincoln historian Bedross Der Matossian in his new book.
The book walks the reader through the details of a few weeks in April 1909, when an estimated 20,000 Christians and two thousand Muslims were killed in sectarian and ethnic violence that was a harbinger of the larger Armenian Genocide to come six years later. Der Matossian draws on an impressive array of sources in Armenian, Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, and both Ottoman and modern Turkish to paint an all-encompassing picture of the events from the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.
Continued below.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-tragic-history/
