Turkey and the Armenian atrocities

Abstract

This book provides a detailed account of the massacre of over 200,000 Armenians in Turkey between 1894 and 1896 by order of Sultan Abdul Hamid. This massacre was a prelude to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Part of the book also deals with the formal creation of the Armenian Question, starting with the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Bliss concludes that the main factor in the atrocities committed against the Armenians was the Turkish desire to crush the only Christian nation that had no chance of asserting itself against the Muslim rulers of Anatolia. Bliss also concludes that the government in Constantinople was responsible for the massacres