The Thirty Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of its Christian Minorities 1894–1924

The Armenian Genocide is widely understood as the series of forced marches and mass executions that took place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16, while the Empire was engaged in World War I. The evidence that it was a genocide is overwhelming, yet contestation of this fact is stubbornly persistent. [...]the authors posit that: "The process of ethnic-religious cleansing was characterized by rounds of large-scale massacre, alongside systematic expulsions, forced conversions, and cultural annihilation that amounted to genocide." [...]the rise of the Turkish Nationalists under Kemal Atatürk in the immediate post-war years is considered to be the foundation of modern Turkey. [...]a senior judge who had run the trials was himself indicted and imprisoned.