Recommended Readings
The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey
by Guenter Lewy
This work examines the rich historical evidence without political preconceptions. Relying on archival materials as well as eye-witness testimony, Guenter Lewy avoids the sterile “was-it-genocide-or-not” debate and presents a detailed account of reliable estimates.
The Balkan Reconquista and Turkey’s Forgotten Refugee Crisis
by William H. Holt
Bringing together a wide array of eyewitness accounts, the book provides unprecedented detail on the plight of the Muslim refugees in their flight from Bulgaria, in Istanbul, and in their resettlement in Anatolia. Holt offers an insightful analysis of human suffering and social memory. [Book Summary]Book Summary
An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism
by Umut Uzer
This work examines the ideological evolution and transformation of Turkish nationalism from its early precursors to its contemporary protagonists. It is the first book in any language to comprehensively analyze Turkish nationalism with such scope and engagement with primary sources
The Armenian Rebellion at Van
by Justin McCarthy
This work presents an examination of Van from the 1870s to 1919. As the authors state, "The Armenian Revolt was an integral part of the great disaster that overcame the people of the Ottoman East. The slaughter of Muslims that accompanied the Armenian revolt in Van Province inexorably led first to Kurdish reprisals on the Armenians.”
The Last Ottoman Wars
by Jeremy Salt
This book addresses previously ignored facts that disrupt the conventional narrative of an ethno-religious division between Muslim perpetrators and Christian victims of violence. Salt presents that all major ethnic groups-including Armenians, Turks, Kurds, and Greeks-were guilty of violent acts. [Book Summary]
The Ottoman Army 1914–1918
by Hikmet Ozdemir
This work provides extensive documentation of disease and death across the Ottoman Empire during World War I, when epidemic diseases annihilated armies and caused civilians to perish en masse. The information on disease mortality explains much that has never been properly understood about wartime and government actions.
Legislating Reality and Politicizing History: Contextualizing Armenian Claims of Genocide
by Brendon J. Cannon
This book demonstrates how the Armenian campaign to have the events of 1915 recognized as the Armenian Genocide remains the single bond possessing enough strength to bind the otherwise linguistic, geographically and religiously diverse Armenian Diaspora communities together.
Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency
by Edward J. Erickson
This book presents that the Ottoman government developed an evolving, 35-year, empire-wide array of counterinsurgency practices that varied in scope and execution depending on the strategic importance of the affected provinces.
Sasun: The History of an 1890s Armenian Revolt
by Justin McCarthy
The book is a serious, scholarly endeavor that is very useful for the scholars and public interested in Ottoman history, the Armenian problem and relations between different ethnic and religious groups.
Sustainability of Microstates: The Case of North Cyprus
by Ozay Mehmet
As a microstate with an area of just 3,442 square kilometers, North Cyprus possesses certain inherent comparative economic advantages in the service sectors that enable it to be sustainable in today's rapidly globalizing and competitive economic world.
The Young Turks and the Ottoman Nationalities
by Feroz Ahmad
The Ottoman Empire’s colonies, stimulated by the idea of nationalism, sought to liberate themselves in the years between 1908 and 1918. While these ethno-nationalist movements have often been described in terms of Ottoman oppressor versus conspiring nationalists, here they are presented as part of a broad historical process.
The Sovietization of Azerbaijan: The South Caucasus in the Triangle of Russia, Turkey, and Iran
by Jamil Hasanli
The book highlights the Caucasian peoples’ struggle to retain political independence against Soviet Russia, the tragedy of the complex period of Sovietization of the South Caucasus, and an international cast that included European powers, Kemalist Turkey, and Iran.
War & Diplomacy
by M. Hakan Yavuz, Peter Sluglett
This work analyzes how The Russo-Turkish War and the Treaty of Berlin transformed the political landscape in the Balkans and in the Caucasus. The treaty marked the end of Ottoman hegemony in the Balkans by formally recognizing the de facto sovereignty of Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro, and the autonomy of Bulgaria.
War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars, and Their Sociopolitical Implications by M. Hakan Yavuz, Isa Blumi
This book examines the Balkan Wars of 1912 to 1913 and how they led to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the sociopolitical implications thereof. The book was published in 2013, 100 years following the wars.
War & Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State
by M. Hakan Yavuz, Feroz Ahmad
War and Collapse covers the last years of the Ottoman Empire. This book stems from a three-day international conference held in May 2012 at which scholars examined the causes and consequences of World War I.
Turkish Foreign Policy
by Baskin Oran and Mustafa Aksin
Turkish Foreign Policy is the only comprehensive work that covers Turkish foreign policy from the end of Ottoman rule in 1919 to the present. Now translated into English, this book, as a study of Turkish foreign policy, incorporates nearly all major issues, factors, and interactions.