Английская Википедия:Esat Uras
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Ahmet Esat Uras (1882–1957)Шаблон:Sfn was a perpetrator of the Armenian genocide who later wrote The Armenians in History and the Armenian Question (1950), an apologist work which has been described as "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'".Шаблон:Sfn
Biography
Uras was a senior official in the Committee of Union and Progress "directorate for public security", heading the "Armenian bureau" due to his ability to read the Armenian language. In this capacity, he played a key role in planning and executing the Armenian genocide.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Uras was likely the chief editor of The Armenian Aspirations and Revolutionary Movements, published in early 1916, in which the Ottoman government attempted to justify its policies towards Armenians.Шаблон:Sfn In May 1916, he went to Aleppo and personally coordinated deportations of the remaining Armenians.Шаблон:Sfn
In the Republic of Turkey, he joined the Republican People's Party and served as a backbench MP for Amasya for decades.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He also participated in the Turkish Historical Society.Шаблон:Sfn
Writings
Шаблон:See also By 1950, Uras was one of the last surviving Unionist leaders. He published The Armenians in History and the Armenian Question (Шаблон:Lang-tr), probably in reaction to Stalin's post-World War II territorial claims on Turkey.Шаблон:Sfn According to Turkish historian Doğan Gürpınar, the book was "a new and comprehensive synthesis" of older Unionist claims and apologetics;Шаблон:Sfn it also built on Uras' personal experiences.Шаблон:Sfn Gürpınar sees the book as "the intermediary connecting two historical eras and two different modes of denialism", the latter being that which developed after 1973.Шаблон:Sfn The book has been described as "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'",Шаблон:Sfn since it established many of the tropes and narratives that would be used in later works that denied the genocide.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn According to Donald Bloxham, the book is "the canonical text of Turkish nationalist historiography on the Armenians".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The book has been widely criticized for misrepresenting sources and exaggerating Armenian rebelliousness.Шаблон:Sfn
Historian Dikran Kaligian states that Uras' work is the main source for those historians who argue that the Armenian Revolutionary Federation fomented a civil war on behalf of Russia. This "provocation thesis" aims to justify the genocide by asserting that Armenians provoked their own persecution.Шаблон:Sfn Kaligian states that Uras' book is an unreliable source that "is replete with mistranslations and distortions as well as key omissions",Шаблон:Sfn for example mistranslating a speech by Vahan Papazian and omitting the passages that contradict Uras' argument.Шаблон:Sfn
References
Sources
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