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Perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers: popular attitudes towards Ottoman christians during the Armenian genocide
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Abstract This article explore the popular attitudes of Ottoman Muslims (mainly Turks and Kurds) and foreign residents (German, US, British, so on) towards their Christian (mainly Armenian and Syrian) friends, neighbors, and countrymen during the tragic events that occurred in WWI Ottoman Empire, known in Wes... view more
This article explore the popular attitudes of Ottoman Muslims (mainly Turks and Kurds) and foreign residents (German, US, British, so on) towards their Christian (mainly Armenian and Syrian) friends, neighbors, and countrymen during the tragic events that occurred in WWI Ottoman Empire, known in Western scholarship as the Armenian genocide. Overall, the attitudes of Ottoman Muslims and foreign residents towards local Christians fit into the perpetrators/bystanders/ rescuers paradigm and varied from active persecution, to indifference, opportunism, and sometimes help and rescue.... view less
Keywords
Armenian; genocide; offender; Muslim; Ottoman Empire; historical development; attitude; alien; Christianity
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 328-344
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 11 (2011) 2
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works