Series VII - Number 168
226 pp, + documents, pb, in English.
- Abbreviations
- Note on the Turkish Alphabet and names
- Preface
Chapter 1 - The Assyrians
- Who are the Assyrians?
- The religion of modern Assyrians
- Population Statistics
Chapter 2 - Assyrians under the Turks (up to 1876)
- Their community organisation
- Influence of Missionaries
- Conflict between the Assyrians and the Kurds
- Assyrians under French and British protection
- The Ottoman Commissioner's Report
- Christian creeds in conflict
- Mar Shimoun's escape
- Schism among the Chaldeans
- Nestorians favour the Ottoman Government
- The Crimean War
- Assyrians as pawns of Britain and France
- Assyrian intrigues with Russia
- Assyrians sign an agreement with the Ottoman Government
- Assyrian refusal to implement the agreement
- The insubordination of the Assyrians continues
Chapter 3 - The reign of Abdülhamit II, the Young Turks, and the Assyrians (1876-1914)
- The Turco-Russian war and the Assyrians
- Assyrians under European protection
- Nestorians' new intrigues with the Russians
- British Missionaries on the scene again
- New Russian intrigues
- The Kurdo-Assyrian conflict
Chapter 4 - Assyrians and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire (1914-1918)
- The outbreak of the Great War
- Assyrians join the Russian forces
- Assyrian Atrocities
- Assyrians declare war on Turkey
- The collapse of Russia
- Britain exploits the Assyrian Levies
- Assyrian excesses
- The assassination of Patriarch Mar Shimoun
- Armeno-Assyrian collaboration
- British intrigues with Armenians
- Advance of the Turkish Army
Chapter 5 - Assyrians and the War for Turkey's Liberation (1919-23)
- Assyrians appeal to the Peace Conference of Paris
- The claims of Patriarch Paulus Mar Shimoun
- Assyrian sectarianism resurfaces
- Assyrians as pawns in Anglo-French intrigues
- Assyrian-Kurdish relations
- Death of Mar Shimoun and resettlement of the Assyrians
- Dissension among the Assyrians
- Assyrian resettlement schemes
- Agha Petros, the arch-intriguer
- The establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq
- Britain recruits Assyrian Levies
- Assyrians demand autonomy
- Assyrians as pawns of Western Super Powers
- Assyrians and the Lausanne Conference
- Agha Petros and the Turkish Delegation
- The Mosul Question and the Assyrians
- British betrayal
- The Assyrian rebellion
- British promises unfulfilled
- Assyrians and the Republic of Turkey
Conclusion
Sources
Index
