National Rights, Minority Rights, and Ethnic Cleansing

In international law, minority rights instruments have been traditionally conceived for, and applied to, old minority groups with the exclusion of new minority groups originating from migration. Yet, minority groups, irrespective of their being old or new minorities, can be subsumed under a common definition and have some basic common claims. This allows devising a common but differentiated set of rights and obligations for old and new minority groups alike. This paper argues that the extension of the scope of application of legal instruments of minority protection, such as the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), is conceptually meaningful and beneficial to the integration of new minorities stemming from migration.

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Book Reviews

Kurdish Studies ◽

10.33182/ks.v8i1.559 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 209-228

Author(s):

Martin Van Bruinessen ◽

Michael M. Gunter ◽

Joost Jongerden ◽

Michiel Leezenberg ◽

Stanley Thangaraj

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Academic Publishing ◽

Ethnic Cleansing ◽

Cambridge University ◽

City College ◽

Tennessee Technological University ◽

Technological University

Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 483 pp., (ISBN: 9781138646643). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Balti, Republic of Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 252 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-330-33239-3) Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University, United States Emel Elif Tugdar & Serhun Al, eds., Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests, Cham: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, pp. 235, (ISBN: 978-3319537146) Reviewed by Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 364 pp, (9781108684842). Reviewed by Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019, 192 pp. (ISBN: 978-1629636511). Reviewed by Stanley Thangaraj, City College of New York, United States

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Review: Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America by Gary Clayton Anderson

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2015.84.4.538 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 84 (4) ◽

pp. 538-539

Author(s):

John Mack Faragher

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Cleansing

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The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity

10.23943/princeton/9780691153339.001.0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Taner Akçam

Keyword(s):

Ottoman Empire ◽

Religious Diversity ◽

Armenian Genocide ◽

Ethnic Cleansing ◽

Turkish Republic ◽

Young Turks ◽

East And West ◽

Late Ottoman Empire ◽

New Evidence ◽

Late Ottoman

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in 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. This book 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 the book 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.

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