Book Reviews: The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Book Reviews: The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Chapter 2 discusses the process of how the Greek Genocide concept emerged. [...]the 1990s, the Anatolian Greeks’ experience in 1912–24 did not play an important role in Greek politicial life. [...]a serious debate emerged on whether the cases of the Pontiac and the Asia Minor Greeks represented geno...

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Published in:Slavic Review Vol. 77; no. 2; pp. 503 - 504
Main Author: Akçam, Taner
Format: Book Review
Language:English
Published: Stanford Cambridge University Press 01-07-2018
Subjects:
Anatolian languages
Debates
Diaspora
Genocide
Holocaust
Massacres
Murders & murder attempts
Population
Greece
New York
Anatolia
Cyprus
United States > US
Asia Minor
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Summary:Chapter 2 discusses the process of how the Greek Genocide concept emerged. [...]the 1990s, the Anatolian Greeks’ experience in 1912–24 did not play an important role in Greek politicial life. [...]a serious debate emerged on whether the cases of the Pontiac and the Asia Minor Greeks represented genocide or not. The 1919–22 occupation of Anatolia by the Greek army, however, and the destruction that ensued, remained serious obstacles to the narrative depicting Greeks solely as victims. [...]this dimension of history was completely left out of the contemporary publications.
ISSN:0037-6779
2325-7784
DOI:10.1017/slr.2018.151