Book Review: The Armenians of Aintab (by Yeghia Tashjian)

Book Review: The Armenians of Aintab (by Yeghia Tashjian)

The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province By Ümit Kurt Harvard University Press, April 2021 400 pp. $45.00 As an Aintabtsi Armenian, Dr. Ümit Kurt’s book The Armenians of Aintab; The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province pushed me

The Class Struggle in the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide (By Yeghia Tashjian)

The Class Struggle in the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide (By Yeghia Tashjian)

Starting in the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was undergoing an economic transition and European powers were meddling in the empire’s economic system. This factor gave rise to the Christian middle class at the expense of the traditional Muslim middle class. To counter this