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Intro -- About the Book -- A Note on Transliteration -- Key to Transcription and Pronunciation of Ottoman-Turkish Words and Names -- The Ottoman Provincial Hierarchy of Governors -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Facts, Truths, and Denial -- Krikor Guerguerian and His Archive -- The Encryption Method in the Document Matches Other Documents in the Archives -- Introduction -- Naim Efendi and His Memoirs -- The Story and Authenticity of Naim Efendi and His Memoirs -- How the Text Has Come Down to Us -- Where Are the Memoir and Document Originals Now? -- Challenges to the Authenticity of the Text -- The Three Fundamental Reservations about the Naim Efendi Memoirs -- Was There an Ottoman Official by the Name of Naim Efendi? -- The Ottoman Documents Bearing the Name "Naim Efendi" -- The Places that Naim Efendi Was Stationed and His Relationship with Andonian -- The Question of Naim Efendi's Personality and Character -- Even If the Memoirs Are Authentic, Could the Documents Still Be Forgeries? -- The Registry Notebook of the Interior Ministry's Cipher Office -- Cipher Telegrams and Coding Techniques -- Some General Observations on the Encrypting System -- The Question of Specific Periods for Encryption Methods -- The Evidence Offered as Proof of the Inauthenticity of Naim Efendi's Telegrams -- The Question of the Use of Lined Paper -- A Final Observation -- The Question of the Dates on the Documents and the Signatures of the Governor -- Do the Dates on the Documents Prove Their Forgery? -- The Signatures of Governor Mustafa Abdülhalik -- A Final Addendum to the Matter of Condemning the Documents -- Subjects and Events Mentioned by Naim Efendi Corroborated in Ottoman Documents -- Certain Armenians Being Sought -- The Case Sogomon [Soghomon] Kuyumjian -- Armenian Parliamentary Deputies and Their Relatives

The laws and decrees of the Committee of Union and Progress period -- The Armistice period and the returning Armenians -- The Turkish Republic prior to Lausanne -- The Treaty of Lausanne : a turning point -- After Lausanne : the Armenians remaining outside of Turkey -- Turkey after Lausanne : virtually raising a wall around its borders like a fortress -- Domestic legal regulations during the Republican period

Study on the forced conversion of the Ottoman Armenians.

Ottoman sources and the question of their being purged -- The plan for the homogenization of Anatolia -- The aftermath of the Balkan wars and the "emptying" of eastern Thrace and the Aegean littoral in 1913-14 -- The transformation of Ottoman politics toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War -- The initial phase of anti-Armenian policy -- Final steps in the decision-making process -- Interior Ministry documents and the intent to annihilate -- Demographic policy and the annihilation of the Armenians -- Assimilation : the conversion and forced marriage of Christian children -- The question of confiscated Armenian property -- Some official denialist arguments of the Turkish state and documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry -- Toward a conclusion

"Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a 'crime against humanity and civilization, ' the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey's 'official history' rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative. The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia's 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic. By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process."--Provided by the publisher.