Table of Contents

1. Introduction and promlematization 2. Ideological foundations: constructing the Turkish 'national economy' 3. Legal foundations: using the justice system for injustice 4. The dispossession of Ottoman Armenians 5. Adana: the cotton belt 6. Diyarbekir: the land of copper and silk 7. Conclusion

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A comprehensive analysis of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide.

About the Author

Dr Ugur Ümit Üngör is assistant professor at Utrecht University and affiliated with the Centre for War Studies (Dublin) and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam). He specializes in the historical sociology of mass violence. His research has focussed on genocidal processes in general, and the Armenian genocide in particular. Mr Mehmet Polatel is a historian focussing on late Ottoman history and early Turkish republic. He has conducted research on the fate of Armenian property in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Currently he is a PhD student at Bogaziçi University and a research assistant at the History Department of Koç University in Istanbul.