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Item Open Access The Armenian 'relocation': the case for 'military necessity'(Terazi Yayıncılık, 2014) Salt, JeremyThis article focuses on the questions of insurgency and'military necessity' as a reason for moving the bulk of the Armenianpopulation from the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in thesecond half of 1915. It looks at precedent and parallel cases of'relocations' in military history and follows the course of the war as itwas fought by the Ottoman government from late 1914, on the battle frontand behind the lines, until the Van uprising of April, 1915, precipitatedthe decision to 'relocate' the Armenian civilian population.Item Open Access Armenians And Syria 1915 and 2013(Terazi Yayıncılık Basım Dağıtım Danışmanlık Eğitim Organizasyon Matbaacılık Kırtasiye Tic. Ltd. Şti., 2013) Salt, JeremyThis brief article takes as its starting point a parallel drawn by the British journalist Robert Fisk between the suffering of Armenians during the First World War and the suffering of Armenians during the current conflict in Syria. The author draws other parallels: between the manipulation of the Armenians and other ethno-religious groups to serve the interests of the entente powers between 1914-18 and the human consequences of intervention in present day Syria by western governments and their regional allies. Indeed, the entire Middle East and North Africa has been an arena for western intervention since early in the 19th century. The author looks at key events from the unfolding of the ‘Armenian question’ through to the Greek invasion of western Anatolia in 1919, carried out under the aegis of the victorious wartime powers and ending in disaster for both Anatolian Turks and Greeks. The article challenges the historical division drawn between the perpetrators of violence and the victims of violence, showing that both were to be found in virtually all ethno-religious groups in what was at the time the most destructive war in world history. The author sees the acknowledgment of this reality as the true foundation of reconciliation between groups still clinging to deeply polarized historical narratives.Item Open Access Europe and the 'Islamic threat': putting the spectre into perspective(Ashgate Pub Ltd, 1998) Salt, Jeremy; Murray, P.; Holmes, L.Item Open Access From virtuous boy to murderous fanatic David Ben Gurion and the Palestinians(Edinburg University Press, 2023-04-01) Salt, JeremyItem Open Access ‘Hebrew Tarzans’ from Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night to Netflix and Fauda(Edinburgh University Press, 2021) Salt, JeremyCore elements of Zionist propaganda justifying the colonisation of Palestine are exploited again in the four books critiqued in this article (Thieves in the Night; Promise and Fulfilment. Palestine 1917–1949; Exodus; and The Haj). For propaganda to be viable, however, it has to be adapted to changing circumstances. Recent Israeli television dramas such as Fauda (Chaos) have realigned images without letting go of the central elements in the propaganda war. In Fauda, Israeli killings in the occupied territories are virtually advertised, as if the state wants viewers to see what it is capable of doing in the name of combatting ‘terrorism’.Item Open Access History and the meaning of the disaster: Arab and Palestinian politics from 1948-1993(Oxford, 1997) Salt, Jeremy; White, P. J.; Logan, W. S.Item Open Access The new orientalism(Centre for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, 1996) Salt, Jeremy; Saikal, A.; Kertesz, C.Item Open Access Notes from the battlefield known as 'history'(Terazi Yayıncılık, 2012) Salt, JeremyThat history is a battlefield of ideas, facts and interpretation is a truth every historian worthy of the description knows. In this article I raise some issues related to my own academic involvement in the history of the ‘Armenian question’. It would be incorrect to say that there is a ‘debate’ over this issue. Debate implies genuine engagement in the search for truth but in Europe, the US, Australia and numerous other countries around the world the truth is apparently known to people who have little or no knowledge of late Ottoman history. History is thus brought to a dead stop: when the truth is known, debate becomes pointless and even offensive – why would anyone want to challenge the truth when it is so manifestly the truth? The point here is that the mainstream narrative is not the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It is more a mixture of truths, half truths, lies, exaggerations and omissions that would significantly shape perceptions were they are ever allowed into the mainstream. This short article examines, from a personal perspective, some of the issues that have taken the author’s attention.Item Open Access Review essay: the denial of the right to disagree(Terazi Yayıncılık, 2018) Salt, JeremyThis book is a study of violence and the consequences of what the author claims is its ‘denial’ by state authorities in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. She argues that ‘unless [the] Turkish state and society come to terms with the collective violence embedded in their past’ they will not be able to recover trust and respect in each other. The focal point of her study is the ‘Armenian question’ from the past to the present.Item Open Access The british and the turks: a history of animosity, 1893–1923(Wiley, 2023) Salt, JeremyItem Open Access The Ottomans: Khans, caesars, and caliphs(Wiley, 2023-03) Salt, JeremyItem Open Access Trouble wherever they went: American missionaries in Anatolia and Ottoman Syria in the nineteenth century(Columbia University Press, 2002) Salt, Jeremy; Tejirian, E. H.; Simon, R. S.Item Open Access Turkey's military " democracy "(Current History, Inc., 1999) Salt, JeremyItem Open Access The uses and misuses of dialogue(2012) Salt, Jeremy'Civilisation' as a tool of power has been a constant in world history since the 'discovery' of new worlds by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British adventurers. 'Discovery' conferred ownership and 'civilisation' justified it. The classification of humans into descending categories of civilised, savages and barbarians was a form of moral stratification. Beginning as a neologism from its Latin roots, civilisation moved forward with 'western'1 explorers and armies wherever they set foot. The implicit message was not what we are doing to you but what we are doing for you. Inevitably, the invaded and colonised fought back and sometimes had the numbers to inflict significant defeats. In Muslim territories, because there was no nation, and displaced rulers who left behind no structure of government, Islam had to be the rallying point. In south-eastern Europe, and amongst the Christians of the Ottoman domains, it was identified as the central source of the problems they were experiencing under 'Muhammadan rule'. No wonder, then, at the high point of imperialism, in a deeply evangelistic age, that the Scottish orientalist Sir William Muir could write that 'the sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty and Truth which the world has yet known'.2 Muir, Stanley Lane-Poole and Ignaz Goldziher were among the orientalists of the late nineteenth century who were the authorities for the scholars who dominated the field for much of the twentieth. The most influential of them, at least in Britain and the United States, were D.S. Margoliouth, H.A.R. (Hamilton) Gibb, Alfred Guillaume, A.J. Arberry, Bernard Lewis, Marshall Hodgson, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Elie Kedourie and Stanford Shaw. Of those named here, only Bernard Lewis (born in 1916) is still living, and, until very recently at least, still turning out one book after another. As a link not just between the scholarship of the late nineteenth century but its culture, it is not surprising that Lewis also hands civilisation to his readers as a means of understanding the problems of the Arab and Muslim worlds (but not of the problems of the 'west'). What is somewhat surprising is that nowhere in this book do any of the authors point out that the 'clash of civilisations' belongs not to Samuel P. Huntington but to Lewis. © 2012 Taylor & Francis.