The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or "Sayfo" (literally, "sword" in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.

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Publisher

Berghahn Books

Year

2017

ISBN

9781785334993

Edition

Topic

Política y relaciones internacionales

Subtopic

Genocidio y crímenes de guerra

Let Them Not Return
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?
Chapter 2 Sayfo Genocide
Chapter 3 The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 4 Mor Dionysios ‘Abd an-Nur Aslan
Chapter 5 Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918-26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey
Chapter 6 Sayfo, Firman, Qafle
Chapter 7 A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro d-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran)
Chapter 8 Interpretation of the ‘Sayfo’ in Gallo Shabo’s Poem
Chapter 9 The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo
Chapter 10 Sayfo and Denialism
Chapter 11 Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide
Chapter 12 Who Killed Whom?
Index