Table of Contents

Dedication
Author's Note
Map 1: The Ottoman Empire in 1914
Map 2: Turkey in 2014

Introduction: Requiem in Diyarbakir
Chapter 1: The Catastrophe
Chapter 2: The History
Chapter 3: From Van to Lausanne
Chapter 4: Aspects of Forgetting
Chapter 5: Post-War Politics
Chapter 6: Awakening
Chapter 7: Assailing Turkey
Chapter 8: A Turkish Thaw
Chapter 9: Independent Armenia
Chapter 10: The Protocols
Chapter 11: Hidden Histories in Diyarbakir
Chapter 12: Two Memorials in Istanbul

Endnotes

About the Author

Thomas de Waal is a writer and scholar on the Caucasus and Black Sea region and currently Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of three books, including The Caucasus: An Introduction. Previously, de Waal worked as a newspaper and radio journalist in London and Moscow.

Reviews

"This magnificent book is the ideal introduction to a difficult subject. Historically rigorous but also full of compassion, it will educate the expert as well as the curious beginner. Highly recommended for Turks, Armenians, and everyone else."--Stephen Kinzer, author of Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
"Finely researched and elegantly written, Tom de Waal's historical travelogue is an empathetic guide to how Armenians and Turks can ease the century of pain and conflict that succeeded the genocidal Ottoman destruction of the Armenian presence in Anatolia in 1915."--Hugh Pope, author of Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern Turkey
"Great Catastrophe is a frank, honest, humane effort to understand the events surrounding the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath. Thomas de Waal writes with empathy and respect for the various contending narratives while avoiding an equivocating 'balance' that dishonors the events and the victims themselves. Meticulously researched and scrupulously fair, it attempts to comprehend and recount for a broad audience the complexity and pain of the MedZ
Yeghern in the hope that average Turks and Armenians might continue the process of recognition, repentance and reconciliation that will allow them both to heal and be redeemed."--Michael Lemmon, Former U.S.
Ambassador to Armenia