{"product_id":"the-thirty-year-genocide","title":"The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenny Morris, Dror Ze'evi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetween 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Thirty-Year Genocide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post–World War I period, the nation’s annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303466442786,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61wKbbqxzFL._SL1000.jpg?v=1707945869","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/the-thirty-year-genocide","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}