Ugur Ungor

Uğur Ümit Üngör is Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Utrecht University and at the Institute for War and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. He specializes in genocide, mass violence and ethnic conflict. His recent publications include Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011), and The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Opinion

Ungor: Turkey Has Acknowledged the Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2012  “Turkey denies the Armenian Genocide” goes a jingle. Yes, the Turkish state’s official policy…

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Opinion

Confiscation and Colonization: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property

“Leave all your belongings—your furniture, your beddings, your artifacts. Close your shops and businesses with everything inside. Your doors will…

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Special Reports

Family Matters: Local Elites and the Structures of Genocide

On May 23, 1915, the Ottoman Interior Minister, Mehmed Talaat Pasha, decreed the integral deportation of all Armenians to the…

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