Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, associate lecturer and researcher at the Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University is joined by Dr Ümit Kurt, research fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Polonsky Academy in Jerusalem. Joining Umit and Spyros to talk about the Armenian Genocide in Aintab are Professor Janet Klein and Dr Max Bergholz. Professor Janet Klein is an expert in the field of Ottoman Studies and the author of an outstanding monograph on Kurdish tribal militias, The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Dr Max Bergholz from Concordia University, Canada, is an associate professor and the author of Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community, a book that has received widespread and quite justified acclaim for its path breaking insights onto the history of genocide and ethnic violence in Yugoslavia during the Second World War.

This podcast discusses the subject of Ümit’s new book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. Max and Janet provide insights from their own vantage points; Janet on the role and legacies of Kurdish militias during genocide and Max on the economics of genocide and the role that they play in the mobilisation of local actors during processes of mass violence.