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The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or "Sayfo" (literally, "sword" in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.
Contents
Preface
 Acknowledgements
 Introduction: Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World War
 David Gaunt, Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma
 Chapter 1. How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?
 Ugur Ümit Üngör
 Chapter 2. Sayfo Genocide: The Culmination of an Anatolian Culture of Violence
 David Gaunt
 Chapter 3. The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
 Florence Hellot-Bellier
 Chapter 4. Mor Dionysios 'Abd an-Nur Aslan: Church Leader during a Genocide
 Jan J. van Ginkel
 Chapter 5. Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918-26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey
 Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma
 Chapter 6. Sayfo, Firman, Qafle: The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac Christians
 Shabo Talay
 Chapter 7. A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro D-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran)
 Sebastian Brock
 Chapter 8. Interpretation of the 'Sayfo' in Gallo Shabo's Poem
 Simon Birol
 Chapter 9. The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo: An Inter-generational Transmission of Fear and Distrust
 Önver A. Cetrez
 Chapter 10. Sayfo and Denialism: A New Field of Activity for Agents of the Turkish Republic
 Racho Donef
 Chapter 11. Turkey's Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide
 Abdulmesih BarAbraham
 Chapter 12. Who Killed Whom? A Comparison of Political Discussions in France and Sweden about the Genocide of 1915
 Christophe Premat
 Index


 
              


