Contents
Illustrations
A Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Origins of World War I
and the Ottoman Road to War
Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Dilemmas of Young Turk Policy,
1914–1918
The Policies of the Entente Powers
toward the Ottoman Empire
The Black Sea Raid of October 29, 1914,
as a Foreign Policy Decision
Ideas, Ideologies,
and Human Agency
Young Turks, Old State
Nationalism in Function
Revisiting Dominant Paradigms
on a Young Turk Leader
Ottomanism and the Ottoman Vatan (1908–1918)
Ambiguities of Turkism
Beyond Jihad
“Landscapes of Modernity and Order”
The War and
the Ottoman Home Front
Greeks, Jews, and Armenians
The Exodus of Thracian Greeks
to Greece in the Post–Balkan War Era
A Last Toehold in Europe
Call to the Rescue
Ottoman Muslim Women and
Work during World War I
Trading in the Shadow of Wars
in a Doomed Empire
When a Military Problem
Became a Social Issue
The Military Origins
of the Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa
The Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa
and World War I
Armenian-Kurdish
and Ottoman-Russian Relations
A Topography of Positions
in the Turkish-Armenian Debate
Russian Military Mobilization
in the Caucasus before World War I
Reclaiming the Homeland
The Armenian Question or
the Eastern Question?
A Last Attempt to
Solve the Armenian Question
The Bitlis Uprising before World War I
The Eastern Vilayets, 1909–1914
The Eighth World Congress of
the Dashnaktsutyun and Its Aftermath
Cilicia
Forced Migration of Ottoman Armenians during World War I
Modern Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Ottoman-Armenian Population Reconcentrations of 1915–1916
The Relations between
the Ottoman State and the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul (1914–1918)
The Deportation of the Armenians
and the Issue of Abandoned Properties
in Kayseri
Getting Away with Murder
Beyond Complicity
An Assessment of Armenian Claims from the Perspective of International Law
Political and Human Landscapes
of Anatolia in American Diplomatic Correspondence after World War I
The Balkans and World War I
From Ottoman to Mediterranean Empire
A Reason to Break the Hague Convention?
Albania
The Jihad Fatwa in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Creation of the
Serbian or Yugoslav State
Arab Provinces
of the Ottoman Empire
The Arab Provinces
of the Ottoman Empire before, during,
and after World War I
Narrating Experiences of World War I
Ottoman and German Imperial
Objectives in Syria during World War I
From Ottoman Lebanon to
the French Mandate
Iran and World War I
Memories and Legacies
of World War I
The “Young Turk Zeitgeist”
in the Middle Eastern Uprisings in
the Aftermath of World War I
“Eternal Sunshine of an Obscure Mind”
Haunting Memories of the Great War
Istanbul in the Early 1920s
in White Russian Memoirs and
Russian Sources
The Ottoman Question at the
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)
Fragmentation and Unification
of the Body in World War I
Chronology
Bibliography
Contributors
Index