2006/09/08 by Donald Quataert · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
paper · doi:10.1162/jinh.2006.37.2.249
openalex publication_date 2006/09/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Little of the writing about the massacres of Armenians, which occurred in 1915, not long before the Ottoman Empire's demise, has utilized Ottoman-language materials. Yet, Ottomanists have a responsibility to research these events and their origins to promote a more complete understanding of them. Providing explanations of the violence that states organize against their own subjects and citizens should be the task of historians able to read the documentary record of the states concerned.