A Perfect Injustice

Except for a short period after the end of the First World War and the ensuing armistice, Turkey has consistently denied that it ever employed a policy of international destruction of Armenians. The 1913-1914 census put the number of Armenians living in Turkey at close to two million. Today only a few thousand Armenians remain in the city Istanbul and none elsewhere in Turkey. Armenian sites in Turkey, including churches, have been neglected, desecrated, looted, destroyed, or requisitioned for other uses, while Armenian place names have been erased or changed. As with the Jewish Holocaust, Armenian properties that were seized or stolen have not been restored. Sixty and ninety years after these terrible events, Jewish and Armenian victims and their heirs continue to struggle to get their properties back. There has been only partial restitution in the Jewish case and virtually no restitution at all in the Armenian case. No adequate reparation for the deeds committed against the Armenians can ever be made. But resolving claims with respect to stolen property is a symbolic gesture toward victims and their heirs. This is unfinished business for Jewish heirs and survivor of the Holocaust, as it is for Armenians. "A Perfect Injustice" is an essential contribution to understanding why the issue of stolen Armenian wealth remains unresolved after all these years - a topic addressed for the first time in this volume.

ISBN 1412810019   Pages 220 ISBN13 9781412810012 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Transaction Publishers   Weight (grammes) 408 Imprint Transaction Publishers   Published in Somerset, NJ Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 15 Sep 2009   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress 2009018496   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 956.620154   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Ottoman Armenians: From Reform to Genocide		1
2		Thousands of Armenian Life Insurance Policies		23
3		Genocide and the Validity of Victims' Life Policies		33
4		The Perpetrators' Claim: "The Policy Benefits Belong to Us"		47
5		The Insurers' Counterclaim: "The Perpetrator is Liable"		55
6		Who is Liable? The Perpetrator or the Insurer?		65
7		Dollar Diplomacy and the Extermination of a Race		73
8		Settlements of Claims without Death Certificates		83
9		1915 Berlin Gold Deposit to Turkey's Account		99
10		1916 Berlin Gold Deposit by the Ittihadists		113
		Summary and Conclusions		135
		Appendixes		149
		Index		157
		Illustrations appear between pages 72 and 73

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