Reading The Near East by William Yale, Chapter VIII

CHAPTER VIII

Abdul Hamid and the Armenians

The Armenians

-Quarreling sectarians and their European sponsors

-Strategic nature of eastern Anatolia

-Armenians and the Kurds

-The Armenians became Christians, the Kurds Muslims

Turks and Armenians

-Security under the early Ottoman sultan

-Changing conditions in the nineteenth century

-Revolutionary ferment among the Armenians

Armenians and The Great Powers

-Revolutionary ideas from Europe

Abdul Hamid's Armenian Policy

-Massacres and other atrocities

-Failure of the Powers to intervene

-Kaiser Wilhelm courts Sultan Abdul Hamid

-Russia otherwise occupied

-France and Britain hesitate to intervene