قضاوت در استانبول: محاکمات نسل‌کشی ارمنی‌ها

Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative translation and detailed analysis of the Takvim-i Vekâyi, the official Ottoman Government record of the Turkish Military Tribunals concerning the crimes committed against the Armenians during World War I. The authors have compiled the documentation of the trial proceedings for the first time in English and situated them within their historical and legal context. These documents show that Wartime Cabinet ministers, Young Turk party leaders, and a number of others inculpated in these crimes were court-martialed by the Turkish Military Tribunals in the years immediately following World War I. Most were found guilty and received sentences ranging from prison with hard labor to death. In remarkable contrast to Nuremberg, the Turkish Military Tribunals were conducted solely on the basis of existing Ottoman domestic penal codes. This substitution of a national for an international criminal court stands in history as a unique initiative of national self-condemnation. This compilation is significantly enhanced by an extensive analysis of the historical background, political nature and legal implications of the criminal prosecution of the twentieth century’s first state-sponsored crime of genocide. CONTENTS OTTOMAN-TURKISH WORDS AND NAMES Introduction PART I The Conditions Surrounding the Trials CHAPTER 1 History of the Turko-Armenian Conflict CHAPTER 2 Military Defeat and the Victors’ Drive for Punitive Justice CHAPTER 3 The Preparations for Courts-Martial CHAPTER 4 The Initiation of Courts-Martial CHAPTER 5 Emergent Kemalism and the Courts-Martial CHAPTER 6 The Series of Major Trials and the Related Verdicts: Falsification of the Arguments of “Relocation,” “Civil War,” and “Intercommunal Clashes” CHAPTER 7 Legal Proceedings as a Conceptual Framework CHAPTER 8 A Summary of the Conditions Surrounding the Trials CHAPTER 9 The Judicial Liquidation of Some of the Arch Perpetrators by Both CUP and Kemalist Authorities, and the Demise of Other Accomplices PART II The Trials and Beyond CHAPTER 10 Death Sentences Handed Down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul CHAPTER 11 Coverage of the Trials by the Istanbul Turkish Press CHAPTER 12 Th e Formation and Operation of the Ottoman Military Tribunals CHAPTER 13 The Full Texts in English of the Indictments and Verdicts APPENDIX GLOSSARY OF TERMS ARCHIVAL, JUDICIAL, AND PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIC SECONDARY SOURCES INDEX Eminently qualified for the task, the two authors offer what they describe in the introduction as "...a study of the World War I Armenian Genocide as documented through the Ottoman Special Military Tribunal's criminal prosecution of the perpetrators involved." Dadrian directed the Genocide Study Project (supported by the National Science Foundation and the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation) and authored The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus (Berghahn Books, 2003); he spent 20 years affiliated with the State U. of New York and is now affiliated with the Zoryan Institute. Ak,cam is a Turkish scholar who, as editor-in-chief of a political journal, was arrested and imprisoned in 1976. Currently he is affiliated with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark U. They provide an in-depth study with a legal-criminological framework. The full texts in English of the indictment and verdicts are included along with numerous primary documents and a select bibliography of materials in Turkish, English, German, French, and Armenian. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) History of the Turko-Armenian conflict / Vahakn N. Dadrian Military defeat and the victors' drive for punitive justice / Vahakn N. Dadrian The preparations for court-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian The initiation of courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian Emergent Kemalism and the courts-martial / Vahakn N. Dadrian The series of major trials and the related verdicts : the falsification of the arguments of "relocation," "civil war" and "intercommunal clashes" / Vahakn N. Dadrian Legal proceedings as a conceptual framework / Vahakn N. Dadrian A summary of the conditions surrounding the trials / Vahakn N. Dadrian The full texts in English of the indictments and verdicts 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 Death sentences handed down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul / Taner Akçam Coverage of the trials by the Istanbul Turkish press / Taner Akçam Formation and operation of the Ottoman military tribunals / Taner Akçam.