1896 1982 TURKEY- ARMENIAN ATROCITIES Bliss TURKISH Turks Kurds Armenians Greeks

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1896 1982 TURKEY- ARMENIAN ATROCITIES Bliss TURKISH Turks Kurds Armenians GreeksTitle: "Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities"Author(s)/Editor(s): Rev. Edwin M. BlissLanguage(s): English ; Publisher: Meshag Printing and PublishingPlace: Fresno, USA ; Year: 1982 (reprint)- 1st was published in 1896;Pages: 574; Cover: Paperback ; Sizes: 14(W) x 20(H) cmCondition: Good Vintage Condition: General age wear, a few minor stains, a few minor pencil marks & a gift note on the front endpaper . For more information regarding book's condition- check provided images or ask us.Item's Code: XA-408ABOUT:Turkey and the Armenian AtrocitiesBliss, Rev. E.M.Fresno, California: Meshag Publishing, 1982, (reprinted), 574 pages."With slight exceptions, the method was to kill within a limited period the largest number possible of Armenian men, especially those of capacity, intelligence, and wealth, and to ruin their families by looting their property."Description:A detailed account by an American missionary born in Turkey in the 1894-1896 massacre of more than 200,000 Armenians, at the order of Sultan Abdul Hamid. This massacre was the prelude to the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The author's region-by-region, city-by-city description of the killings was paralleled 20 years later in more devastating terms by Lord Bryce and Arnold Toynbee in the British government' s collection of documents from 1915-1916 â€" The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. One portion of the book also deals with the formal creation of the Armenian Question, beginning with the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Bliss concludes that a major factor for the atrocities against the Armenians was the Turkish desire to crush the only Christian group which appeared to have any chance of asserting itself against the Muslim overlords of Anatolia. Bliss also concludes that the government of Constantinople was responsible for the massacres.--------------------------------------------------------------CONTENTSThe cover, frontispiece, title page, copyright notice, etc.)Introduction.Preface.Turkey in Asia (map)Table of contents (as in the book)List of illustrationsCHAPTER I. THE TURKISH EMPIRE.Geographical Extent -- Topography -- Physical Characteristics -- Products -- Traveling and Transportation -- BuildingCHAPTER II. POPULATION AND LANGUAGES.Accurate Statements as to Population Impossible -- No Census -- Best Available Estimates -- Distribution -- Most of the Races Described in Other Chapters -- Jews and Foreigners -- General Characteristics -- The Languages -- How Distributed -- Peculiarities of the Turkish -- Number Spoken in the Seaboard CitiesCHAPTER III. RELIGIONS.Islam and Christianity -- A Few Pagan Communities -- Origin of Mohammedanism -- The Koran -- The Traditions -- Extent of Islam -- Present Condition -- Effect upon the Turks -- Contact with Civilization -- Sects -- Oriental Christianity -- CharacteristicsCHAPTER IV. THE TURKS.Their Origin -- Early History -- General Characteristics -- Good Qualities -- Kindness -- Hospitality -- Temperance -- Honesty -- Intellectual Ability -- Obedience to Rulers -- Bravery -- Bad Characteristics -- Indifference to Suffering -- Brutality -- Degradation of Women -- Sensuality -- Official Unreliability -- Fatalism -- Insolence -- Indolence -- General SummaryCHAPTER V. THE KURDS.Legend of the Serpents -- Connected with the Medes -- Tribal Organization -- Nomad Life -- Saladin and the Crusaders -- After the Russo-Turkish War -- The Hamidieh Cavalry -- Brutal Treatment of Christians -- Arabs -- Circassians and Other Moslem Subjects -- The Nusairiyeh -- Yezidis and Druze... read more

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