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The Armenian Crisis in Turkey: The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance, With a Consideration of Some of the Factors Which Enter Into the Solution of This Phase of the Eastern QuestionGreene, Frederick Davis

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The Armenian Crisis in Turkey: The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance, With a Consideration of Some of the Factors Which Enter Into the Solution of This Phase of the Eastern Question

Name: The Armenian Crisis in Turkey: The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance, With a Consideration of Some of the Factors Which Enter Into the Solution of This Phase of the Eastern Question
Author: Greene, Frederick Davis

Greene, Frederick Davis

Armenian massacres, 1894-1896; Armenian question

The author shows that the case of the subject races in the Ottoman
Empire is desperate, that there is no hope of reform from within, and
that relief must therefore come through the interference of the powers
of Europe. Their action depends largely on the support of the public.
“_Public opinion_,” therefore, “_must be brought to bear upon this
case_,” as Mr. Gladstone said in the House of Commons six years ago.
Since then there has been added a new chapter of horrors, and the demand
for decisive action in the name of our common humanity has become more
urgent. The facts furnished by this book ought to arouse such public
opinion as will justify and compel prompt and efficient action on the
part of the Powers.

The United States need not depart from its long-established foreign
policy, but is bound to protect its own honor and the lives and property
of its citizens.

                                                          JOSIAH STRONG.

  NEW YORK, March 1, 1895.




                               CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE
      I.— A CHAPTER OF HORRORS                                         1

          Certified Evidence of the Armenian Massacre, Preceded by
          an Endorsement of the Evidence, with Signatures in
          Fac-simile, and an Explanatory Note.


     II.— GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT EASTERN TURKEY                    43

          The Physical Aspects, Inhabitants, and Administration of
          the Country.


    III.— THE CHRONIC CONDITION OF ARMENIA AND KURDISTAN              54

          Specific and Detailed Instances of Kurdish Plunder and
          Oppression.—The Turkish System of Taxation and its
          Abuses.—Why these Facts are so little Known.—What can be
          Done to Improve the Situation.


     IV.— OTTOMAN PROMISES AND THEIR FULFILMENT                       70

          The Treaty of Adrianople, 1829.—The Hatti Sherif,
          1839.—Pledge of 1844.—Protestant Charter, 1850.—Hatti
          Humayoun, 1856.—Anglo-Turkish Convention, 1878.—Treaty of
          Berlin, 1878.


      V.— THE OUTCOME OF THE TREATY OF BERLIN                         76

          British Naval Demonstration, 1879.—The Identical Note of
          the Powers, 1880, and the Turkish Reply.—The Collective
          Note of the Powers, and the Aggressive Response of the
          Sublime Porte.—The Circular of Great Britain, 1881, its
          Cool Reception by the Powers, and the Indefinite
          Postponement of Turkish Reforms.—The Effect of the Berlin
          Treaty in Arousing Armenian Aspirations and Increasing
          Turkish Oppression.—Armenian Revolution a Nightmare of
          the Turks.—The Real Armenian Position.—The Only Treatment
          for the “Sick Man” a Surgical One.


     VI.— THE SULTAN AND THE SUBLIME PORTE                            87

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The Armenian Crisis in Turkey: The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance, With a Consideration of Some of the Factors Which Enter Into the Solution of This Phase of the Eastern Question

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