Originally published in GPN, Genocide Prevention Now, Special Issue 5, Winter 2011
GPN provides below a few references to the subjects introduced in this issue. We will be pleased to receive from readers additional recommendations and from time to time to update the references in this issue which will remain mounted on our GPN Web site. Please send bibliographic recommendations with a notation “For Bibliography of Co-Victims” in an email to Marc Sherman, Director GPN Holocaust and Genocide Review, at israel(a)genocidepreventionnow.org.
Please take special note: The basic subject of the Armenian Genocide with respect to the murders of one to one-and-a-half million Armenians is not a subject of this issue, and therefore we do not present a specialized bibliography of the genocide of the Armenians. GPN’s sponsor, the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, presented the first full-scale treatment ever of the Armenian Genocide in an encyclopedia in the Encyclopedia of Genocide, published by ABC-Clio in 1999 in the US, and 2000 in the U.K. The hardcopy is out of print, but an electronic edition can still be purchased from the publisher.
GPN’s Editor, Israel W. Charny, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Genocide. Rouben Paul Adalian, today the Director of the forthcoming Armenian Genocide Museum in Washington D.C., and longtime Director of the Armenian National Institute was an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia who played the primary role in creating the extensive section on the Armenian Genocide. The two were joined by four more Associate Editors: Steven Leonard Jacobs, Eric Markusen, Marc I. Sherman, and Samuel Totten.
At this time we present in particular a few references for what we have described as “the little known Assyrian Genocide,” and one recommended reference to what we characterize as “the virtually unknown Yezidi Genocide.”
As for the Greek Genocide to which this issue refers as “the somewhat known Greek Genocide,” the reader will find in this issue the home page of www.greek-genocide.org which refers him to a range of references. We have also included in this issue two stories on each of two important books on the Greek Genocide, The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks, edited by Tessa Hoffmann, Matthias Bjornlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis, and The Whispering Voices of Smyrna by Niki Karavasilis.
Finally, we have included three references integrating the three Genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, one to the resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars recognizing Assyrians and Greeks as co-victims of the (long-before recognized) Armenians in the Armenian Genocide; the second the text of the address given by Hilda Choboyan in Azbarez to the conference in Athens on the three genocides; the third to a new book, which has just crossed our desk.
Recommended References particularly regarding the Assyrian Genocide:
1. Khosoreva, Anahit (2007). The Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and Adjacent Territories. In Hovanissian, Richard (Ed.), in The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, pp. 267–274.
2. Travis, Hannibal (December 2006). “‘Native Christians massacred’: The Ottoman genocide of the Assyrians during World War I. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 1(3), 327–371.
3. Schaller, Dominik J. and Zimmerer, Jurgen (2008). Late Ottoman genocides: The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies. Journal Genocide Research, 10(1), 7–14.
4. Gaunt, David. Death’s End, 1915: The General Massacres of Christians in Diarbekir. In Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa. Ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series: Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, 6. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2006, pp. 309-359.
5. Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, pp. 436.
Recommended References particularly about the Yezidi Genocide:
1. Kurd.net. The Virtually Unknown Genocide of Yezidis by the Turks along with the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2008/3/turkeykurdistan1735.htm
2. Yeziditruth.org. This site offers a narrative of the Yezidi Genocide along with a time line of massacres and genocide committed against the Yezidi people from 630 AD through 1917. http://www.yeziditruth.org/yezidi_genocide
3. The Plight of Assyria. New York Times, 18 September 1916.
Recommended References particularly about the three genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks
1. Jones, Adam (2007-12-15). International Genocide Scholars Association Officially Recognizes Assyrian, Greek Genocides. AINA. http://www.aina.org/news/20071215131949.htm.
2. [Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks] Three Genocides, One Perpetrator http://asbarez.com/90955/three-genocides-one-perpetrator/
3. Kostos, Sofia Kontogeorge (2010). Before The Silence: Archival News Reports of the Christian Holocaust that Begs to be Remembered.
Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 349. ISBN:978-1-60724-999-3
Publisher’s Description: This book is a collection of newspaper reports documenting the massacres and genocides of Greek, Armenian and Assyrian minorities who inhabited Asia Minor over many millennia by the Ottoman Turks and later the Kemalists. These reports emanating from English language sources show that there was a systematic and organized campaign by Turkish authorities to eliminate all traces of the memories of these minorities from the face of the earth.
Before the Silence will serve as a permanent reminder that the many massacres starting from 1822, and the genocides carried out during the years 1914-23 are a crime against humanity and the memories of the victims should never be forgotten but respected and remembered.
Table of Contents
Tribute (page 7)
Table of Contents (page 11)
Acknowledgements (page 13)
Publisher’s Note (page 17)
A Message (page 19)
Foreword (page 21)
Preface (page 23)
Archival News Reports (page 49)
Appendix: Chrysostomos of Ephesos, An Eyewitness Report of the Genocide and Catastrophe of the Christians in Asia Minor (page 339)
Remembering (page 347)
For an interview with the author, please see http://www.seyfocenter.com/index.php?sid=2&aID=289
See also stories in GPN Issue 4 and 6 (forthcoming shortly) about the recent conference in Athens, “Three Genocides, One Strategy.” See also in this issue of GPN “News Release from the Assyrian International Agency about the Athens Conference on the Assyrian, Greek and Armenian Genocides.”
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Quotable:
“Erasmus wrote, ‘The worst Turk lives in our own minds,’ in the form of ‘greed, avarice, lust for power, self-satisfaction, impiousness, a craving for luxury, hedonism, fraudulence, spiteful hatred, envy. Only after destroying these vices in our own souls with the ‘sword of the spirit’ may we then go to war against the Turks, according to Erasmus. Also, in a commentary on Psalm 28, he wrote about the Christians ‘slaying the Turk within,’ by which he meant conquering sin, or ‘Turkishness,’ as he calls it rather unflatteringly.
Source: From an article by Handlesaltz, Michael (June 11, 2010). Semantic twists of fate: Reflections on expressions relating to matter Turkish. Haaretz English Edition.