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Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
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Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past

Turkey Book Talk

July 30, 202430m 1s

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Show Notes

Umit Kurt on "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard University Press). The book draws on archival sources, memoirs, personal papers, oral accounts and property liquidation records to detail the dispossession of Antep's Armenian community and the transfer of their wealth to Ottoman and later Turkish Muslim elites.

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