Turkey’s Violent Formation

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• List of FiguresList of MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. 1. Democracy Versus Genocide? Part I. Reform and Massacre in an Expiring Sultanate-Caliphate.2. Fair Futures! Missionaries against “Indian Removal,” “Armenian Atrocities” 3. Islamic Empire and the Politics of Societal Massacre 4. Choosing War in the Crisis of Reform: The 1914 Agreement for Anatolia and Germany Part II. Turkey’s Ultranationalist Refoundation.5. Pact, Not Peace: The Lausanne Treaty’s “Near East Peace” 6. Riza Nur: Co-Founder of the Republic, Delegate in Lausanne, Pan-Turkist7. The Destruction of DersimPart III. Revolution and Anti-Democracy: Biographical Approaches. 8. Ziya Gökalp: Mentor of Ultranationalism, Advocate of Education 9. Patriot Cavid Bey, Victim of Judicial Murder in Ankara10. Mahmut Bozkurt: Revolution, Racism, and the Secular Republic 11. Parvus in Turkey, a Merchant of Revolution and WarPart IV. End of Empire, Time of Genocide: Turkey’s and Germany’s Affinitiy.12. Johannes Lepsius, a German Patriot and Protestant Internationalist13. Ambassador Wangenheim and the CUP: A Model of Moral Defeatism 14. Democrat Matthias Erzberger and Turkey 15. Germany and the Armenians: A Fatal FailureEpilogue. Index.

The Great War and its aftermath carried extreme violence into the fabric of Turkish politics and society. Hans-Lukas Kieser is a sure guide to this tragic story of lost possibilities and of the construction of an iron cage of public life. This book is history with a moral message.