Editor

Bülent Doğan

Languages

Turkish

1st edition - May 2013
448 Pages
45 TL

Memory is returning to these lands. It is coming from afar, from the period of nation-building, which is over a century away. Surely, what has been deemed fit by the state for the inhabitants of these lands during the process of nation-building, what the inhabitants deemed fit for each other, the suffering, the collective violence, every malign recollection that has been forgotten or worse, made to forget, is returning now. But it is not just the malign memory that is returning; the differences that these lands embraced, the wealth that has been destroyed or ignored as a result of the nation-making are also returning. Since decades, this country witnesses every day a lot of information, existence and absence which is new but not really new. - From Cengiz Aktar's introductory speech

This book, which contains the papers presented at the conference “The Social and Economic History of Diyarbakir and the Region” organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation on 11-13 November 2011 and held in Diyarbakir, is published by Hrant Dink Vakfı publications in Turkish. The book which contains articles about the region of over 24 researchers from Turkey and abroad carries great significance in relation to its contribution to discussions regarding the peace process in Turkey.

The following names have articles in the book: Rakel Dink, Ali Bayramoğlu, M. Diyaeddin Gezer, Necdet İpekyüz, Cengiz Aktar, Baskın Oran, Barbara J. Merguerian, Raymond Kévorkian, George Aghjayan, Özge Ertem, Seda Altuğ, Nilay Özok Gündoğan, Vahé Tachjian, Uğur Bahadır Bayraktar, Selçuk Akşin Somel, Suavi Aydın, Janet Klein, B. Trigona-Harany, Mehemed Malmîsanij, Cafer Sarıkaya, Jelle Verheij, David Gaunt, Zeliha Etöz, Hans Lukas-Kieser, Ayhan Aktar, Abdülhamit Kırmızı, Mekki Uludağ, Cuma Çiçek, Jessie Hanna Clark, Saadet Altay, Sait Çetinoğlu, Mehmet Polatel ve Şeyhmus Diken.

The paper titled 'The Great Blazes of Diyarbekir 1895, 1914' has been prepared by Zeliha Etöz and Mehmet Taylan Esin and presented at the conference by Zeliha Etöz. Due to a technical error, Mehmet Taylan Esin's name and the map referred to in the notice did not appear in the book. We have corrected it and apologize. Please click here to view the map.

Book name
Diyarbakır Tebliğleri
Sub heading
Diyarbakır ve Çevresi Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Tarihi Konferansı
ISBN
9786058657038
Price
45 TL
Pages
448
Width
150 mm
Height
240 mm
Weight
600 gr
Edition
1st edition - May 2013
Language
Turkish
Author
Collective
History conferences
series editor
Cengiz Aktar
Editor
Bülent Doğan
Series design
Sarp Sözdinler, BEK
Design consultancy
BEK Tasarım ve Danışmanlık
Printing
Mas Matbaacılık

This book contains the papers presented at the conference “The Social and Economic History of Diyarbakir and the Region” organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation and held in Diyarbakir in November 2011.

This project has been realized in collaboration with the Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality Department of Cultural Affairs, Diyarbakir Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Kamer Foundation and supported by the Chrest Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation .

  • Part I
    • Welcome Address
      Rakel Dink
    • Opening Speeches
      Ali Bayramoğlu
      Osman Baydemir
      Mehmet Diyaeddin Gezer
      Necdet İpekyüz
      Cengiz Aktar
    • Anatolia Post-1839: The State, the Muslims and the Non-Muslims
      Baskın Oran
  • Part II
    • Section 1. General Panorama of Diyarakir and its Surroundings
      • A 19th Century American perspective (1830-1870)
        Barbara J. Merguerian
      • The demographic challenge or the control of the territory: The vilâyet of Diyarbekir during the Ottoman period
        Raymond Kévorkian
      • An evaluation of records regarding the Armenian population of the Diyarbekir province before 1915
        George Aghjayan
    • Section 2. Social-Economic Order and Its Deterioration During the Second Half of
      19th Century
      • “The Price is High!” Scarcity, Poverty and Violence in Diyarbakir, 1879-1901
        Özge Ertem
      • Armenians and Kurds in the rural part of Diyarbakir pre-1915 
        Seda Altuğ
      • Taxing the periphery, “Governing the backward”: Making of the modern Ottoman state in Kurdistan, 1840-1860
        Nilay Özok Gündoğan
      • Merging Local Narratives with general narratives: Armenian life in Ottoman Palu
        Vahé Tachjian
      • Looking at the social and economic history of Diyarbekir and its periphery from 1893 Chicago World Fair
        Cafer Sarıkaya
    • Section 3: Ottoman Politics Towards the Region and Emerging Nationalisms
      • Getting used to humanity: a gaze from the Sublime Porte to Diyarbekir during the Reform period
        Uğur Bahadır Bayraktar
      • Governance and Assimilation of the Rural: The emergence of civil state education in Diyarbekir, 1868-1908
        Selçuk Akşin Somel
      • Tribe and state in the 19th century and turn of the 20th century:  The Empire is tested by the rural in its own orient.
        Suavi Aydın
      • State, tribe, dynasty and the contest over Diyarbekir at the turn of the 20th Century 
        Janet Klein
      • Failed Ottomanism: the Süryani of Diyarbekir
        Benjamin Trigona-Harany
      • Kurdish nationalism in Diyarbekir in the early 20th Century, 1900-1920
        Mehemed Malmîsanij
  • Part III
    • Section 1: Violence, Pogrom and Genocide in Diyarbakir
      • Diyarbakir and the Armenian crisis of 1895
        Jelle Verheij
      • From daily violence to Genocide in Diyarbakir
        David Gaunt
      • Great Blazes of Diyarbakir, 1895, 1914
        Zeliha Etöz & Mehmet Taylan Esin
      • Missed peace with the Armenians? Approaching the Ottoman eastern provinces before 1915
        Hans Lukas-Kieser
      • Diyarbekir, 1915
        Ayhan Aktar & Abdülhamit Kırmızı
    • Section 2: Social and Economic conditions from World War I to the Republican era
      • The social and economic conditions of Silvan during World War I
        Mekki Uludağ
      • Building the power of state and reformation of the East: The first 10 years of the Republic in the Kurdish region
        Cuma Çiçek
      • Women in Kurdish society in pre and early republican era : Notes and suggestions for research
        Jessie Hanna Clark & Saadet Altay
      • What happened to Armenian property in Diyarbakir?
        Sait Çetinoğlu
      • The role of Armenian properties in the socio-economic transformation of Diyarbakir
        Mehmet Polatel
      • Which neighborhood is Diyarbakir?
        Şeyhmus Diken
  • Presenters
  • Index