De Bellaigue, Christopher, 1971-

Rebel land : unraveling the riddle of history in a Turkish town / Christopher de Bellaigue.

1st American ed.

New York : Penguin Press, 2010.

ix, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn't war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened."--Jacket.

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De Bellaigue, Christopher, 1971- Travel Turkey Varto.
De Bellaigue, Christopher 1971- Travel Turkey Varto.
De Bellaigue, Christopher 1971- Travel.
De Bellaigue, Christopher, 1971-
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Genocide.
Taboes.
Etnische conflicten.
Armeniërs.
Koerden.
Turken.
Varto (Turkey) History.
Varto (Turkey) Description and travel.
Varto (Turkey) Social life and customs 21st century.
Varto (Turkey) Social life and customs.
Turkey Varto.
Varto.

History.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 270114
Cote: BIB 202787
Statut: Disponible