Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915

Joost Jongerden is Assistant Professor at Sociology and Anthropology of Development of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His research interests include socio-spatial analyses of the Kurdish issue in Turkey. He is co-editor of Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey (Routledge, 2011).Jelle Verheij is an independent researcher, specializing in the history and geography of Eastern Turkey and the late Ottoman Empire. He has published several articles on Armenian-Ottoman and Kurdish-Ottoman relations before World War I.

• CONTENTSList of Tables .................................................................................................... viiAbout the Authors .......................................................................................... ixNote on Names and Spelling ....................................................................... xiIntroduction ..................................................................................................... 1Joost Jongerden and Jelle VerheijConfusion in the Cauldron: Some Notes on Ethno-Religious Groups, Local Powers and the Ottoman State in Diyarbekir Province, 1800–1870 ................................................................................... 15Suavi Aydın and Jelle VerheijElite Encounters of a Violent Kind: Milli İbrahim Paşa, Ziya Gökalp and Political Struggle in Diyarbekir at the Turn of the 20th Century ........................................................................................ 55Joost JongerdenDiyarbekir and the Armenian Crisis of 1895 .......................................... 85Jelle VerheijState, Tribe, Dynasty, and the Contest over Diyarbekir at the Turn of the 20th Century ............................... 147Janet KleinA “Peripheral” Approach to the 1908 Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Land Disputes in Peasant Petitions inPost-revolutionary Diyarbekir ................................................................ 179Nilay Özok-GündoğanSome Notes on the Syriac Christians of Diyarbekir in the Late 19th Century: A Preliminary Investigation of SomePrimary Sources .......................................................................................... 217Emrullah AkgündüzRelations between Kurds and Syriacs and Assyrians in Late Ottoman Diyarbekir ................................... 241David GauntDisastrous Decade: Armenians and Kurds in the Young Turk Era, 1915–25 ............................ 267Uğur Ümit ÜngörAnnexesA. Provisional List of Non-Muslim Settlements in the Diyarbekir Vilayet Around 1900 .................. 299B. Diyarbekir and the Armenian Crisis of 1895—The Fate of the Countryside ............................... 333C. Telegraphs from Diyarbekir and Pirinççizade Arif Efffendi’s Speech ........................................... 345D. Family Tree of Ziya Gökalp ............................................................. 353E. British map of Diyarbekir and Surroundings, 1904 ................... 355Name and Subject Index .............................................................................. 357Place Index ...................................................................................................... 365Tribes (aşiret) Index ....................................................................................... 371

"Overall, this collection provides a noteworthy variety of perspectives on Diyarbekir in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Ottoman sources, British parliamentary documents, consul reports, the documents of Christian communities (like church archives) and oral history. All the contributors undertake significant micro-studies to challenge historical generalizations and shed more light on neglected subjects." - Gülseren Duman, Boğaziçi University, in: New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 48, Spring 2013