Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide)

The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidencesurrounding it. This book provides a major clarification of the often blurred lines between facts and truth in regard to these events. The authenticity of the killing orders signed by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha and the memoirs of the Ottoman bureaucrat Naim Efendi have been two of the most contested topics in this regard. The denialist school has long argued that these documents and memoirs were all forgeries, produced by Armenians to further their claims. Taner Akçam provides the evidence to refute the basis of these claims and demonstrates clearly why the documents can be trusted as authentic, revealing the genocidal intent of the Ottoman-Turkish government towards its Armenian population. As such, this work removes a cornerstone from the denialist edifice, and further establishes the historicity of the Armenian Genocide.

• The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
• Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide
• The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
• Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston (The George Sherston Trilogy)
• August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
• The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)
• Lenin on the Train
• Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide
• Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey
• Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, 1914: A Geographic and Demographic Gazetteer