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"The Heroic Battle of Aintab is an invaluable primary source that shows the perspective of Armenians - survivors of the Armenian Genocide - during the Franco-Turkish conflict in Aintab in 1920-1921. Armenians were in a difficult position as they tried to negotiate a path between their former executioners and an invading French army. They even had to resort to arms and fight on their own account against hostile forces. ""The famous battle of Aintab ... seems to have been as much the organised struggle of a group of [Turkish] genocide profiteers seeking to hold onto their loot as it was a fight against an occupying force. The resistance ... sought to make it impossible for the Armenian repatriates to remain in their native towns, terrorising them [again] in order to make them flee. In short, not only did the local ... landowners, industrialists and civil-military bureaucratic elites lead the resistance movement, but they also financed it in order to cleanse Aintab of Armenians."""

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Ümit Kurt is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences (History) and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A former Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, he is the author of The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021), Antep 1915: Genocide and Perpetrators (Ileşitim, 2018) and the coauthor of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn, 2015). He is the co-editor of the volumes of Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2020) and The Committee of Union and Progress: Founders, Ideology, and Structure (The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2021). Kurt's articles have been published in the Journal of Genocide Research, Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Patterns of Prejudice, Genocide Studies International, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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