Table of Contents

Ottoman-Turkish Words and Names

Preface
Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam

PART I: THE CONDITIONS SURROUNDING THE TRIALS

Chapter 1. History of the Turko-Armenian Conflict
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 2. Military Defeat and the Victors’ Drive for Punitive Justice
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 3. The Preparations for Court-Martial
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 4. The Initiation of Courts-Martial
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 5. Emergent Kemalism and the Courts-Martial
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 6. The Series of Major Trials and the Related Verdicts: The Falsification of the  Arguments of “Relocation,” “Civil War” and “Intercommunal Clashes”
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 7. Legal Proceedings as a Conceptual Framework
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 8. A Summary of the Conditions Surrounding the Trials
Vahakn N. Dadrian

PART II: THE TRIALS AND BEYOND

Chapter 9. The Full Texts in English of the Indictments and Verdicts

Chapter 10. The Judicial Liquidation of Some of the Arch Perpetrators by both CUP and the Kemalist Authorities and the Demise of Other Accomplices
Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 11. Death Sentences Handed Down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul
Taner Akçam

Chapter 12. Coverage of the Trials by the Istanbul Turkish Press
Taner Akçam

Chapter 13. Formation and Operation of the Ottoman Military Tribunals
Taner Akçam

Appendix
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography

About the Author

Vahakn N. Dadrian (1926-2019) was director of a large Genocide Study Project with sustained support by the National Science Foundation and the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation. The project’s first major achievement was the publication of an extensive volume, The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus (Berghahn Books 1995), now in its 8th edition, which has been translated into Arabic, French, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. In 2005, he received four separate awards for his lifetime contribution to genocide studies. He taught at the State University of New York (SUNY) system (1970–1991) and was Director of Genocide Research at the Zoryan Institute.

Reviews

“This volume is the most comprehensive and analytical work to address the Armenian genocide from legal-criminal perspective to date. …[It] should be regarded as an important contribution to the field of Armenian genocide studies, Ottoman legal history, and the history of War Tribunals… It provides readers with a compelling argument about the historical veracity of the Armenian genocide.” • The Cyprus Review “Dadrian’s and Akçam’s handbook must already be considered as an indispensable tool for all who are dealing with the Armenian genocide but also for all those who are involved with the judicial processing of ‘crimes against humanity’ in the international context of the 20th Century.” • Neue Historische Literatur “This book [by Vahakn Dadrian and Taner Akçam, one Armenian, one Turkish, both noted scholars of the Armenian Genocide] stands as a monument of original scholarship on the facts of the Genocide. The wealth of specific citations, the multiplicity of sources surveyed make this volume an invaluable and fundamental source for any future study.” • The Armenian Mirror-Spectator “…an exhaustive and definitive treatment of the rise and demise of these trials,.. The book offers meticulous accounts of the Ottoman collapse in 1918 and the question of postwar punitive justice, the preparations, initiation, proceedings, and conditions of the courts-martial, and finally examines the societal context in which the tribunal operated. The authors must be commended for their assiduous engagement with a range of sources. The most innovative of these are articles from the Ottoman press in the armistice, which clearly demonstrate that condemnation of the Armenian genocide was ubiquitous in Ottoman society… a useful reference book this volume was highly due and will prove indispensable for any student of the Armenian genocide.” • H-Soz-u-Kult