Understanding The Turkish- Armenian Controversy Over 1915

Mustaf Serdar PALABIYIK

Contents
Introduction
1. The legal definition of genocide
2. The Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire:
Was there a racist anti-Armenian discourse in the
Ottoman Empire?
a. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire's classical
period up to the nineteenth century
b. Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire: The
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
3. Intent to relocate or intent to destroy?
Ottoman intentions during the Armenian relocation
a. Debates about an open declaration of intent
b. Debates about the destruction of the leadership
of the Armenian community
c. Debates about the role of the Special
Organization in the relocation of the Armenians
d. Debates about the existence of a systematic
plan of extermination before the Armenian
relocation
e. Debates about the inappropriate conditions
during the Armenian relocation
4. Trials of Ottoman officials for war crimes including
the ill-treatment of Armenians
a. Two opposing views of the courts-martial
b. The 1916 Courts-Martial: A CUP attempt to
try the culprits
c. The 1919-20 Courts-Martial and the Malta
investigations
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5. Relocation as a military precaution?
a. Military motives of the Armenian relocation
b. Activities of Armenian revolutionary
organizations
c. Ottoman-Armenian relations on the eve of the
World War I and before the Armenian relocation
d. Other examples of relocation on the basis of
military necessity
6. The Armenian Diaspora and Armenian relocation
a. Definition of the concept of “diaspora” and the
Armenian Diaspora
b. The division and historical evolution of the
Armenian Diaspora
c. State-Diaspora relations in the post-Cold War
period
7. Parliaments vs. courts: Political resolutions and legal
decisions regarding the relocation of the Armenians
a. The Court of First Instance's Judgment (2003)
b. The Judgment of Constitutional Council of
France (2012)
c. The European Court of Human Rights Judgment
(2013)
Conclusion
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