Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Oktay Özel
• Christin Pschichholz

Titel

The Role of Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa (Special Organization) in the Armenian Genocide

Ist Teil von

• The First World War as a Caesura?, 2020, p.81

Ort / Verlag

Duncker & Humblot

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1914 was a crucial year for the Ottoman government under the leading political organization of the revolutionary Young Turks, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP).¹ Ever since the consolidating their power as a de-facto dictatorship byamilitary coup of January 1913 (Bâbıâli Baskını), they started to pursue a radical policy towards the recovery of the territories lost in the Balkans during the years following the 1908 revolution – the area symbolically synonymous with the ‘Macedonian Question’. Edirne, the most important city of Ottoman Thrace, which had been under a Bulgarian siege nearly for a year, was liberated on late July