Publication of “Genocide Against the Ottoman Greeks”

Originally published in GPN, Genocide Prevention Now, Special Issue 5, Winter 2011

Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, announces the publication of Genocide Against the Ottoman Greeks: Studies on the State-Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor, 1912-1922 and Its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory.

Edited by Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjornlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis
512 pages, 37 photographs, maps ISBN 978-0-89241-615-8

Table of Contents:

Israel W. Charny:
Prologue:
The integrity and courage to recognize all the victims of a  genocide:
Naming all other victims alongside one’s own people, and where necessary even acknowledging violence done by our own victim people, without defining oneself a traitor

Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjornlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis:
Introduction

A. Historical overview, documentation, interpretation
Tessa Hofmann:
Genoktonia en roi: Cumulative genocide

Matthias Bjornlund:
Danish sources to the destruction of the Ottoman Greeks, 1914-1916

Rachef Donef:
The role of Teskilat Mahsusa (Special Organisation) in the genocide of 1915

John Mourelos:
The 1914 persecutions of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire and the first attempt at an exchange of minorities between Greece and Turkey

Nikolaos Hlamides:
The Smyrna Holocaust: the final phase of the Greek Genocide

Matthew Stewart:
The Immediate Context of the Smyrna Catastrophe:  The Peace Treaties and the Aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922

Harry J. Psomiades:
The American Near East Relief (NER) and the Megali Catastrophe in 1922

B. Representations and Law

Steven Leonard Jacobs:
Genocide of Others: Raphael Lemkin, the Genocide of the Greeks, the Holocaust, and the Present Moment

Alfred De Zayas:
The Ottoman genocide against the Greeks and other Christian minori-ties in the light of the Genocide Convention

C. Genocide education
Ronald Levitsky: Teaching the Pontian Greek Genocide?

D. Memorialization
Michel Bruneau, Kiriakos Papoulidis:
Remembering the Genocide and the ‘Unforgettable Homelands’ – the Erecting of Commemorative Monuments in Greece by the Refugees of Asia Minor

E. Conceptualization
Akis Kailaitzidis:
The Eastern Question: Genocide in Support of Nationality

Abraham Der Krikorian; Eugene Taylor:
Achieving Ever-Greater Precision in Attestation and Attribution of Geno-cide Photographs

Annex
– Eyewitness accounts
– Archival sources
– IAGS resolution
– Chronology of major events
– Glossary
– Selective bibliography
– List of contributors
– List of illustrations
– Maps
– Index