An edition of Rebel land (2010)

Rebel land

unraveling the riddle of history in a Turkish town

1st American ed.

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An edition of Rebel land (2010)

Rebel land

unraveling the riddle of history in a Turkish town

1st American ed.

"In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn't war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened."--Jacket.

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Penguin Press
Language
English
Pages
270

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Rebel land: among Turkey's forgotten peoples
2010, Bloomsbury
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Rebel land: unraveling the riddle of history in a Turkish town
2010, Penguin Press
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Table of Contents

Dramatis personae
Map of Turkey and her neighbors
Prologue : The mirror
Map of the district of Varto
An infinity of shapes
Map of the town of Varto
Rebel land
The massacre of Newala Ask
Great man
The death of Mehmet Serif Firat
Gumgum!
Scab
The siege of Varto
Deep state
The captain's victory
Epilogue : The silver belt.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-270).

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
956.6
Library of Congress
DS51.V37 D43 2010, DS51.V37D43 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 270 p. :
Number of pages
270

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26644899M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781594202520
ISBN 10
1594202524
ISBN 13
9781594202520
LCCN
2010280177
OCLC/WorldCat
430052031

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