The Thirty-Year Genocide TurkeyÕs Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894Ð1924 (PDF) (Print)

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the regionÕs Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out AnatoliaÕs Christian population.