What Happened in Adana in April 1909? Conflicting Armenian and Turkish views

180 pp, pb, in English.

Preface

Turco-Armenian controversy and conspiracy theories 

• Conspiracy Theories on the Adana Incident: Prototypes
• Rehashed Theories: The Armenian Version
• Rehashed Theories: The Turkish Version
• A Disputable Document: the “Report” of Agop Babikyan
• A Disputable Documents: The Memoirs of Mehmed Asaf.

The Adana province during the nineteenth century 

• The Land of Derebeys
• The ‘Reform Division’ and the Beginning of the Centralized Administration
• Cotton Export and the Development of Agrarian Economy
• Massive Colonization during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
• Land Accumulation
• Emergence of New Local Bosses: The Ağas
• The Plight of Muslim Peasants
• A Multi-Ethnic Society and the Ethnic Division of Labour
• Turco-Armenian Relations

The Young Turk revolution and its impact on the Adana province

• CUP Takeover of Power and its Weakness 
• Ambivalent Characters of the CUP Adana Branch
• The New Provincial Government
• Anti-CUP Sentiment among the Muslims
• Struggle between the Pro- and Anti-Cevad blocks
• Muslim-Armenian Tensions after the Revolution 
• The Smuggling of fire arms
• rmenian cultural activities and their side-effects.

A hidden agenda: Demographic warfare and land disputes 

• Armenian Nationalism and the Muslim reaction
• Demographic dimension
• Rising tension in communal relations
• Repeated dispute over the Taylan Çiftliği
• New Demographic Pressure after the Young Turk Revolution
• Dispute over the Armenian land ownership after the Revolution
• The repercussions of the land dispute over Armeno-Muslim relations.

The April incidents in Adana 

• The Hovannes Affair and the Excitement of the Muslim Population
• The Outbreak of Hostilities
• Defence of the Armenians
• Muslim Mob
• How the Provincial Government Reacted
• The End of the Initial Hostilities and an Interlude
• The Second Incident.

Riots and massacres in the countryside 

• The Hamidiye Incident
• The Tarsus Inferno
• The Attack of Kozoluk
• The Disturbance in the Cebel-i Bereket
• The retreat of the Hasanbeyli Armenians
• The siege of Dörtyol
• The Kozan Prefecture.

The aftermath 

• The Casualties
• The Relief and Reconstruction Works
• A Farewell to Conspiracy Theories. 

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