The late Ottoman genocides is a historiographical theory which sees the concurrent
Armenian,
Greek, and
Assyriangenocides[1][2][3] that occurred during the 1910s–1920s as parts of a single event rather than separate events, which were initiated by the
Young Turks.[2][4] Although some sources, including The Thirty-Year Genocide (2019) written by the historians
Benny Morris and
Dror Ze'evi, characterize this event as a
genocide of Christians,[3][5][6] others such as those written by the historians Dominik J. Schaller and
Jürgen Zimmerer [
de] contend that such an approach "ignores the Young Turks' massive violence against non-Christians", in particular against
Muslim Kurds.[7][8][9]
According to the journalist
Thomas de Waal, there is a lack of a work similar to historian
Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands (2010) that attempts to cover all of the mass violence in
Anatolia and the
Caucasus between 1914 and 1921.[12] De Waal suggests that while "the [Armenian] genocide of 1915–1916 would stand out as the biggest atrocity of this period... [such a work] would also establish a context that would allow others to come to terms with what happened and why, and also pay homage to
the many Muslims who died tragically in this era".[12]
^Schaller, Dominik J.; Zimmerer, Jürgen (2008). "Late Ottoman genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies—introduction". Journal of Genocide Research. 10 (1): 7–14.
doi:
10.1080/14623520801950820.
S2CID71515470.
^Schaller, Dominik J.; Zimmerer, Jürgen, eds. (2013). Late Ottoman Genocides: The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies. Routledge.
ISBN978-1-317-99045-1.
^Akçam, Taner (2011). The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity. Princeton University Press.