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Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide - Ümit Kurt
Dig into the history of the Armenian Genocide, during which the Ottoman Empire killed over 1 million Armenians during WWI.
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When an Armenian resistance movement began to form in the 19th century, Sultan Abdul Hamid II took decisive action. He led the Hamidian Massacres— a relentless campaign of violence that killed over 150,000 Armenians. These massacres were the culmination of centuries of oppression, yet they were only the beginning of an even greater tragedy. Ümit Kurt uncovers the history of the Armenian Genocide.
Lesson by Ümit Kurt, directed by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet.
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published: 12 Nov 2024
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Umit Kurt: The Confiscation of Armenian Properties in the Founding of the Turkish Republic
Produced by AGBU WebTalks
www.agbuwebtalks.org
Dr. Ümit Kurt examines liquidation laws and regulations as an important component of the Armenian Genocide. Used as incentive in the implementation of mass deportations and massacres during the Genocide, the confiscated wealth of the Armenians ultimately formed an economic cornerstone in the foundation of the Turkish Republic.
Dr. Ümit Kurt is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021).
published: 22 Nov 2022
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Umit Kurt: The Armenians of Aintab
published: 20 Apr 2021
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Umit Kurt | Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire | NAASR Armenian Studies
Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Social History: A Discussion of a New Publication with Dr. Ümİt Kurt, Research Fellow, Polonsky Academy, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
June 7, 2020
Co-Sponsors
Ararat Eskijian Museum
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
In this online presentation Dr. Ümit Kurt discussed the new publication Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (Armenian Series of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, 2020), co-edited with Ara Sarafian. The volume explores new avenues of research and analysis for understanding modern Armenian and regional history in the late Ottoman Empire, including the Hamidian massacres of 1894-96, the interaction of the Ottoman state and Armenian political activists a...
published: 07 Jun 2020
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The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in An Ottoman Province (1895-1930)
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in An Ottoman Province (1895-1930)
Dr. Umit Kurt
Columbia University
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Research Institute on Turkey
Web: http://riturkey.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ResearchInstituteOnTurkey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RIoTurkey
published: 28 Oct 2019
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The Kurds and the Armenian Genocide: Collaboration and Resistance - Uğur Ümit Üngör
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents this public lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör (who at the time of the lecture was Associate Professor of History, Utrecht University, Netherlands). This lecture was presented at the University of Southern California on April 8, 2015.
Learn more about the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr
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In the spring of 1915, the Ottoman government launched the destruction of the Armenian population through a combination of deportation, expropriation, mass murder, and forced assimilation. The perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were mainly Turks, Kurds, and Caucasian peoples such as Chechens and Circassians. The Kurdish peoples, as perpetrators and bystanders, were involved in both colla...
published: 24 Aug 2023
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NAASR Armenian Studies | Uğur Ümit Üngör | Race and Space
Race and Space
The Armenian Genocide in the Context of Population and Territory
Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör
The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. From 1913 to 1950, successive Turkish regimes subjected this region to a thorough policy of ethnic homogenization.
Based on a decade of research on a range of unexamined records, Üngör demonstrates that the Armenian Genocide was part and parcel of this wider process. He offers insights into the economic ramifications of the genocide and describe how the plunder was organized on the ground. He concludes that this violent process not only destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural cities, but also clear...
published: 24 May 2012
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Armenian Genocide and Provincial Histories: Dispossession and Migration in the late-Ottoman Empire
While the Armenian genocide is oftentimes associated with the events of 1915 and its aftermath, the pre-years of genocide and shifting local practices have been less discussed. Although scholars explored 1894-1896 Hamidian Massacres and the Adana Massacre of 1909 to exemplify the empire-wide hostile policies toward Armenians, we little know about how macro-policies were differently interpreted at the local level and what kind of (agentive) responses it produced. In this panel, we bring two groundbreaking scholars together to understand the interplay between persistent violence and the wide variety of responses the same violence brought. Revisiting the provincial histories of the Ottoman state through local and regional perspectives, David Gutman will highlight the Armenian migration to Nor...
published: 02 May 2022
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The Armenian tragedy - it was Genocide ! - Documentary
( RT Documentary )The Armenian tragedy - it was Genocide ! - Documentary
Russia Today program documenting the horrific atrocities committed against Armenians (and other Christians) by the savage Turk.
Exactly one century ago, a crime against humanity took place in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Despite being carried out on an enormous scale, there is still no atonement or official recognition for that campaign of terror and death. During WWI, Armenian people faced a deliberate massacre intended to annihilate their whole nation. An atrocity that inspired Hitler and whose victims are, even to this day, denied justice. It was genocide !
published: 17 May 2015
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The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
Lecture by Dr. Ümit Kurt, historian and Research Fellow at the Polonsky Academy in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Following the lecture, Mr. Robert Kurkjian, a descendant of Genocide survivors from Aintab, provides additional commentary about his family's experience with property loss and confiscation during the Armenian Genocide.
One cornerstone of the wartime campaign against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the confiscation of their properties and wealth, which were subsequently transferred to Muslim elites and used in reshaping the domestic economy as well as covering wartime expenses. These were among the radical practices of the CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) regime aimed at nationalizing the economy. First, many businesses and properties were transferred to state insti...
published: 08 Oct 2021
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Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide - Ümit Kurt
Dig into the history of the Armenian Genocide, during which the Ottoman Empire killed over 1 million Armenians during WWI.
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When an Armenian resistance move...
Dig into the history of the Armenian Genocide, during which the Ottoman Empire killed over 1 million Armenians during WWI.
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When an Armenian resistance movement began to form in the 19th century, Sultan Abdul Hamid II took decisive action. He led the Hamidian Massacres— a relentless campaign of violence that killed over 150,000 Armenians. These massacres were the culmination of centuries of oppression, yet they were only the beginning of an even greater tragedy. Ümit Kurt uncovers the history of the Armenian Genocide.
Lesson by Ümit Kurt, directed by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet.
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Dig into the history of the Armenian Genocide, during which the Ottoman Empire killed over 1 million Armenians during WWI.
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When an Armenian resistance movement began to form in the 19th century, Sultan Abdul Hamid II took decisive action. He led the Hamidian Massacres— a relentless campaign of violence that killed over 150,000 Armenians. These massacres were the culmination of centuries of oppression, yet they were only the beginning of an even greater tragedy. Ümit Kurt uncovers the history of the Armenian Genocide.
Lesson by Ümit Kurt, directed by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet.
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"An Armenian Trilogy” documentary with concert performed by the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra: https://armeniantrilogy.com
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Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Mi Mi, Thomas Rothert, Brian Elieson, Oge O, Weronika Falkowska, Nevin Spoljaric, Sid Chanpuriya, Anoop Varghese, David Yastremski, Noah Webb, Roberto Chena, Oliver Koo, Luke Pisano, Andrea Gordon, Aleksandar Donev, Nicole Klau Ibarra, Jesse Lira, Ezekiel Raui, Petr Vacek, Dennis, Olivia Fu, Kari Teffeau, Cindy Lai, Rajath Durgada Manjunath, Dan Nguyen, Chin Beng Tan, Tom Boman, Karen Warner, Iryna Panasiuk, Aaron Torres, Eric Braun, Sonja Worzewski, Michael Clement, Adam Berry, Ghaith Tarawneh, Nathan Milford, Tomas Beckett, Alice Ice, Eric Berman, Kurt Paolo Sevillano, Jennifer Heald, Megulo Abebe, isolwi, Kate Sem, Ujjwal Dasu, Angel Alberici, Minh Quan Dinh, Sylvain, Terran Gimpel and Talia Sari.
- published: 12 Nov 2024
- views: 343975
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Umit Kurt: The Confiscation of Armenian Properties in the Founding of the Turkish Republic
Produced by AGBU WebTalks
www.agbuwebtalks.org
Dr. Ümit Kurt examines liquidation laws and regulations as an important component of the Armenian Genocide. Used...
Produced by AGBU WebTalks
www.agbuwebtalks.org
Dr. Ümit Kurt examines liquidation laws and regulations as an important component of the Armenian Genocide. Used as incentive in the implementation of mass deportations and massacres during the Genocide, the confiscated wealth of the Armenians ultimately formed an economic cornerstone in the foundation of the Turkish Republic.
Dr. Ümit Kurt is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021).
https://wn.com/Umit_Kurt_The_Confiscation_Of_Armenian_Properties_In_The_Founding_Of_The_Turkish_Republic
Produced by AGBU WebTalks
www.agbuwebtalks.org
Dr. Ümit Kurt examines liquidation laws and regulations as an important component of the Armenian Genocide. Used as incentive in the implementation of mass deportations and massacres during the Genocide, the confiscated wealth of the Armenians ultimately formed an economic cornerstone in the foundation of the Turkish Republic.
Dr. Ümit Kurt is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021).
- published: 22 Nov 2022
- views: 1542
1:00:34
Umit Kurt | Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire | NAASR Armenian Studies
Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Social History: A Discussion of a New Publication with Dr. Ümİt Kurt, Research Fellow, Polonsky Academy, Van L...
Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Social History: A Discussion of a New Publication with Dr. Ümİt Kurt, Research Fellow, Polonsky Academy, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
June 7, 2020
Co-Sponsors
Ararat Eskijian Museum
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
In this online presentation Dr. Ümit Kurt discussed the new publication Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (Armenian Series of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, 2020), co-edited with Ara Sarafian. The volume explores new avenues of research and analysis for understanding modern Armenian and regional history in the late Ottoman Empire, including the Hamidian massacres of 1894-96, the interaction of the Ottoman state and Armenian political activists and revolutionaries, and the methodical exclusion of Kurds in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East, among other issues.
Dr. Ümit Kurt is a currently a research fellow at Polonsky Academy in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at the University of Tel Aviv. He received his doctorate in the Department of History at Clark University. He is the author of The Great, Hopeless Turkish Race: Fundamentals of Turkish Nationalism in the Turkish Homeland, 1911-1916 (2012; in Turkish) and Antep 1915: Genocide and Perpetrators (2018, in Turkish), and the co-author with Taner Akçam of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (2015), translator of Heroic Battle of Aintab (2018), and the co-editor of Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (2020).
https://wn.com/Umit_Kurt_|_Armenians_And_Kurds_In_The_Late_Ottoman_Empire_|_Naasr_Armenian_Studies
Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Social History: A Discussion of a New Publication with Dr. Ümİt Kurt, Research Fellow, Polonsky Academy, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
June 7, 2020
Co-Sponsors
Ararat Eskijian Museum
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
In this online presentation Dr. Ümit Kurt discussed the new publication Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (Armenian Series of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, 2020), co-edited with Ara Sarafian. The volume explores new avenues of research and analysis for understanding modern Armenian and regional history in the late Ottoman Empire, including the Hamidian massacres of 1894-96, the interaction of the Ottoman state and Armenian political activists and revolutionaries, and the methodical exclusion of Kurds in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East, among other issues.
Dr. Ümit Kurt is a currently a research fellow at Polonsky Academy in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at the University of Tel Aviv. He received his doctorate in the Department of History at Clark University. He is the author of The Great, Hopeless Turkish Race: Fundamentals of Turkish Nationalism in the Turkish Homeland, 1911-1916 (2012; in Turkish) and Antep 1915: Genocide and Perpetrators (2018, in Turkish), and the co-author with Taner Akçam of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (2015), translator of Heroic Battle of Aintab (2018), and the co-editor of Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (2020).
- published: 07 Jun 2020
- views: 1503
56:12
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in An Ottoman Province (1895-1930)
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in An Ottoman Province (1895-1930)
Dr. Umit Kurt
Columbia University
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Research Institute on Turkey
Web: htt...
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in An Ottoman Province (1895-1930)
Dr. Umit Kurt
Columbia University
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Research Institute on Turkey
Web: http://riturkey.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ResearchInstituteOnTurkey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RIoTurkey
https://wn.com/The_Armenians_Of_Aintab_The_Economics_Of_Genocide_In_An_Ottoman_Province_(1895_1930)
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in An Ottoman Province (1895-1930)
Dr. Umit Kurt
Columbia University
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Research Institute on Turkey
Web: http://riturkey.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ResearchInstituteOnTurkey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RIoTurkey
- published: 28 Oct 2019
- views: 463
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The Kurds and the Armenian Genocide: Collaboration and Resistance - Uğur Ümit Üngör
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents this public lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör (who at the time of the lecture was Associate Professor o...
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents this public lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör (who at the time of the lecture was Associate Professor of History, Utrecht University, Netherlands). This lecture was presented at the University of Southern California on April 8, 2015.
Learn more about the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr
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In the spring of 1915, the Ottoman government launched the destruction of the Armenian population through a combination of deportation, expropriation, mass murder, and forced assimilation. The perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were mainly Turks, Kurds, and Caucasian peoples such as Chechens and Circassians. The Kurdish peoples, as perpetrators and bystanders, were involved in both collaboration and resistance. This lecture will focus on how and why Kurds chose to get involved in the genocide, and why some instead resisted
Uğur Ümit Üngör, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Utrecht University and Research Fellow at the Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His research looks at state and nation formation, and the sociology of mass violence.
https://wn.com/The_Kurds_And_The_Armenian_Genocide_Collaboration_And_Resistance_Uğur_Ümit_Üngör
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents this public lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör (who at the time of the lecture was Associate Professor of History, Utrecht University, Netherlands). This lecture was presented at the University of Southern California on April 8, 2015.
Learn more about the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr
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In the spring of 1915, the Ottoman government launched the destruction of the Armenian population through a combination of deportation, expropriation, mass murder, and forced assimilation. The perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were mainly Turks, Kurds, and Caucasian peoples such as Chechens and Circassians. The Kurdish peoples, as perpetrators and bystanders, were involved in both collaboration and resistance. This lecture will focus on how and why Kurds chose to get involved in the genocide, and why some instead resisted
Uğur Ümit Üngör, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Utrecht University and Research Fellow at the Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His research looks at state and nation formation, and the sociology of mass violence.
- published: 24 Aug 2023
- views: 1581
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NAASR Armenian Studies | Uğur Ümit Üngör | Race and Space
Race and Space
The Armenian Genocide in the Context of Population and Territory
Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör
The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a ...
Race and Space
The Armenian Genocide in the Context of Population and Territory
Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör
The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. From 1913 to 1950, successive Turkish regimes subjected this region to a thorough policy of ethnic homogenization.
Based on a decade of research on a range of unexamined records, Üngör demonstrates that the Armenian Genocide was part and parcel of this wider process. He offers insights into the economic ramifications of the genocide and describe how the plunder was organized on the ground. He concludes that this violent process not only destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural cities, but also cleared the way for the modern Turkish nation-state.
Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör is Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Utrecht University and the Institute for War and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. He specializes in genocide, mass violence, and ethnic conflict. His recent publications include Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011), and The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
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April 26, 2012
NAASR Headquarters
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA
Presented by:
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
https://wn.com/Naasr_Armenian_Studies_|_Uğur_Ümit_Üngör_|_Race_And_Space
Race and Space
The Armenian Genocide in the Context of Population and Territory
Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör
The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. From 1913 to 1950, successive Turkish regimes subjected this region to a thorough policy of ethnic homogenization.
Based on a decade of research on a range of unexamined records, Üngör demonstrates that the Armenian Genocide was part and parcel of this wider process. He offers insights into the economic ramifications of the genocide and describe how the plunder was organized on the ground. He concludes that this violent process not only destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural cities, but also cleared the way for the modern Turkish nation-state.
Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör is Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Utrecht University and the Institute for War and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. He specializes in genocide, mass violence, and ethnic conflict. His recent publications include Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011), and The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
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April 26, 2012
NAASR Headquarters
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA
Presented by:
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
- published: 24 May 2012
- views: 2732
1:28:52
Armenian Genocide and Provincial Histories: Dispossession and Migration in the late-Ottoman Empire
While the Armenian genocide is oftentimes associated with the events of 1915 and its aftermath, the pre-years of genocide and shifting local practices have been...
While the Armenian genocide is oftentimes associated with the events of 1915 and its aftermath, the pre-years of genocide and shifting local practices have been less discussed. Although scholars explored 1894-1896 Hamidian Massacres and the Adana Massacre of 1909 to exemplify the empire-wide hostile policies toward Armenians, we little know about how macro-policies were differently interpreted at the local level and what kind of (agentive) responses it produced. In this panel, we bring two groundbreaking scholars together to understand the interplay between persistent violence and the wide variety of responses the same violence brought. Revisiting the provincial histories of the Ottoman state through local and regional perspectives, David Gutman will highlight the Armenian migration to North America and Umit Kurt will discuss processes of dispossession and economics of genocide.
The Economics of Genocide in Ottoman Aintab: The Active Participation of Local Elites in Plunder
Ümit Kurt
Ümit Kurt received his PhD from Clark University, History Department in 2016. He is the author, with Taner Akçam, of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2016-2017 and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno in 2017-2018. He is currently a Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and teaching in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province, has been published in 2021 by Harvard University Press.
The Politics of Migration and the Socio-Political Climate of Armenian Life in the Pre-Genocide Ottoman East
David Gutman
David Gutman is Associate Professor of History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. His book, The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America: Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens (Edinburgh, 2019), examines the overseas migration of Ottoman Armenians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the Ottoman state’s response to this migration. The book addresses a wide range of themes including clandestine mobility, migrant smuggling, border control, and contested citizenship. He has also published on topics ranging from mobility control and intelligence gathering to the historiography of the Armenian genocide. He is currently in the early stages of a comparative study of urban violence against non-dominant populations in the early twentieth century. He also serves as managing editor of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
Moderated by Lou Ann Matossian (Armenian-American Historian)
Organized by Berkant Caglar (PhD student, Anthropology)
Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies and the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair
Paid for in part with funds from the Wexler Fund for Holocaust & Genocide Education.
https://wn.com/Armenian_Genocide_And_Provincial_Histories_Dispossession_And_Migration_In_The_Late_Ottoman_Empire
While the Armenian genocide is oftentimes associated with the events of 1915 and its aftermath, the pre-years of genocide and shifting local practices have been less discussed. Although scholars explored 1894-1896 Hamidian Massacres and the Adana Massacre of 1909 to exemplify the empire-wide hostile policies toward Armenians, we little know about how macro-policies were differently interpreted at the local level and what kind of (agentive) responses it produced. In this panel, we bring two groundbreaking scholars together to understand the interplay between persistent violence and the wide variety of responses the same violence brought. Revisiting the provincial histories of the Ottoman state through local and regional perspectives, David Gutman will highlight the Armenian migration to North America and Umit Kurt will discuss processes of dispossession and economics of genocide.
The Economics of Genocide in Ottoman Aintab: The Active Participation of Local Elites in Plunder
Ümit Kurt
Ümit Kurt received his PhD from Clark University, History Department in 2016. He is the author, with Taner Akçam, of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2016-2017 and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno in 2017-2018. He is currently a Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and teaching in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province, has been published in 2021 by Harvard University Press.
The Politics of Migration and the Socio-Political Climate of Armenian Life in the Pre-Genocide Ottoman East
David Gutman
David Gutman is Associate Professor of History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. His book, The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America: Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens (Edinburgh, 2019), examines the overseas migration of Ottoman Armenians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the Ottoman state’s response to this migration. The book addresses a wide range of themes including clandestine mobility, migrant smuggling, border control, and contested citizenship. He has also published on topics ranging from mobility control and intelligence gathering to the historiography of the Armenian genocide. He is currently in the early stages of a comparative study of urban violence against non-dominant populations in the early twentieth century. He also serves as managing editor of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
Moderated by Lou Ann Matossian (Armenian-American Historian)
Organized by Berkant Caglar (PhD student, Anthropology)
Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies and the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair
Paid for in part with funds from the Wexler Fund for Holocaust & Genocide Education.
- published: 02 May 2022
- views: 511
51:59
The Armenian tragedy - it was Genocide ! - Documentary
( RT Documentary )The Armenian tragedy - it was Genocide ! - Documentary
Russia Today program documenting the horrific atrocities committed against Armenians ...
( RT Documentary )The Armenian tragedy - it was Genocide ! - Documentary
Russia Today program documenting the horrific atrocities committed against Armenians (and other Christians) by the savage Turk.
Exactly one century ago, a crime against humanity took place in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Despite being carried out on an enormous scale, there is still no atonement or official recognition for that campaign of terror and death. During WWI, Armenian people faced a deliberate massacre intended to annihilate their whole nation. An atrocity that inspired Hitler and whose victims are, even to this day, denied justice. It was genocide !
https://wn.com/The_Armenian_Tragedy_It_Was_Genocide_Documentary
( RT Documentary )The Armenian tragedy - it was Genocide ! - Documentary
Russia Today program documenting the horrific atrocities committed against Armenians (and other Christians) by the savage Turk.
Exactly one century ago, a crime against humanity took place in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Despite being carried out on an enormous scale, there is still no atonement or official recognition for that campaign of terror and death. During WWI, Armenian people faced a deliberate massacre intended to annihilate their whole nation. An atrocity that inspired Hitler and whose victims are, even to this day, denied justice. It was genocide !
- published: 17 May 2015
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The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
Lecture by Dr. Ümit Kurt, historian and Research Fellow at the Polonsky Academy in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Following the lecture, Mr. Robert Kurkjian,...
Lecture by Dr. Ümit Kurt, historian and Research Fellow at the Polonsky Academy in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Following the lecture, Mr. Robert Kurkjian, a descendant of Genocide survivors from Aintab, provides additional commentary about his family's experience with property loss and confiscation during the Armenian Genocide.
One cornerstone of the wartime campaign against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the confiscation of their properties and wealth, which were subsequently transferred to Muslim elites and used in reshaping the domestic economy as well as covering wartime expenses. These were among the radical practices of the CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) regime aimed at nationalizing the economy. First, many businesses and properties were transferred to state institutions. Second, a lesser but substantial number of firms were transferred to “reliable” Muslim individuals and social institutions. More significant than the transfers themselves was the fact that these extraordinary measures were based on a set of laws, regulations, rules, and decrees that created a legal basis for a more systematic campaign against the movable and immovable properties of Armenians. In this capital transfer, we see that genocide also created the circumstances to enable “the complete fulfillment of the established policy of ethnic domination through expropriation.” Economic dispossession was far from a process carried out “from above” by means of the simple execution of CUP orders. If the process of the economic exclusion of Armenians is to be described fully, a regional historical analysis is necessary. This talk will explore how the process of economic destruction directed at the Armenians of Aintab—present-day Gaziantep, thirty-five miles west of the Euphrates and twenty-eight miles north of today’s Turkish-Syrian border—was implemented. Shifting focus from state to society, thereby prioritizing the local roots of a mass violence in the making, this work will highlight the crucial role played by local elites and provincial notables, actors who prospered in the new social stratum through the acquisition of Armenian property and wealth.
The event, hosted by the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law, is co-sponsored by the UCLA Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Ararat-Eskijian Museum.
For details visit: https://www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/event/15195
https://wn.com/The_Armenians_Of_Aintab_The_Economics_Of_Genocide_In_An_Ottoman_Province
Lecture by Dr. Ümit Kurt, historian and Research Fellow at the Polonsky Academy in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Following the lecture, Mr. Robert Kurkjian, a descendant of Genocide survivors from Aintab, provides additional commentary about his family's experience with property loss and confiscation during the Armenian Genocide.
One cornerstone of the wartime campaign against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the confiscation of their properties and wealth, which were subsequently transferred to Muslim elites and used in reshaping the domestic economy as well as covering wartime expenses. These were among the radical practices of the CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) regime aimed at nationalizing the economy. First, many businesses and properties were transferred to state institutions. Second, a lesser but substantial number of firms were transferred to “reliable” Muslim individuals and social institutions. More significant than the transfers themselves was the fact that these extraordinary measures were based on a set of laws, regulations, rules, and decrees that created a legal basis for a more systematic campaign against the movable and immovable properties of Armenians. In this capital transfer, we see that genocide also created the circumstances to enable “the complete fulfillment of the established policy of ethnic domination through expropriation.” Economic dispossession was far from a process carried out “from above” by means of the simple execution of CUP orders. If the process of the economic exclusion of Armenians is to be described fully, a regional historical analysis is necessary. This talk will explore how the process of economic destruction directed at the Armenians of Aintab—present-day Gaziantep, thirty-five miles west of the Euphrates and twenty-eight miles north of today’s Turkish-Syrian border—was implemented. Shifting focus from state to society, thereby prioritizing the local roots of a mass violence in the making, this work will highlight the crucial role played by local elites and provincial notables, actors who prospered in the new social stratum through the acquisition of Armenian property and wealth.
The event, hosted by the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law, is co-sponsored by the UCLA Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Ararat-Eskijian Museum.
For details visit: https://www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/event/15195
- published: 08 Oct 2021
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