Warrant for genocide : key elements of Turko-Armeniain conflict / by Vahakn N. Dadrian.

First paperback printing 2003

Copyright ©1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Includes bibliographical references and index: p.191-214

Contents: The liabilities of Islam in a multiethnic state organization -- The clash between democratic norms and theocratic dogmas -- Massive migrations, demography, and the Kurdish factor -- The abortiveness of Ottoman reforms -- The advent of the Abdul Hamit era and the onset of new crises -- The advent of Armenian revolutionaries and the Ottoman Turkish backlash -- Zeitoun (Süleymaniye): an aberrant episode in the evolution of the Turko-Armenian conflict -- The eruption of empire-wide massacres: the rudiments of genocide as a method of resolving the Turko-Armenian conflict -- The outlines of a genocidal scheme: the Saloniki decision and its disclosure by dissident Ittihadists -- The twisted interconnections between Armenian military roles and the World War I Armenian genocide -- The World War I law on deportation and the final solution formula -- The three arch-determinants of the Turko-Armenian conflict and its violent resolution -- The questionable features of the Ottoman calculus of the demography of the Armenians.