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The Massacre of Ottoman Armenians and the Writing of Ottoman History
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- The MIT Press
- Volume 37, Number 2, Autumn 2006
- pp. 249-259
- Review
- Additional Information
Little of the writing about the massacres of Armenians, which occurred in 1915, not long before the Ottoman Empire's demise, has utilized Ottoman-language materials. Yet, Ottomanists have a responsibility to research these events and their origins to promote a more complete understanding of them. Providing explanations of the violence that states organize against their own subjects and citizens should be the task of historians able to read the documentary record of the states concerned.