Ümit Kurt (historian)

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Ümit Kurt is a historian who studies the modern Middle East. Many of his publications are about the Armenian genocide.[1] In 2016, he received a PhD in Armenian genocide studies from Clark University.[2] Kurt is a Turkish citizen ethnically of Kurdish and Arab origin; he was born and grew up in Gaziantep.[3][4]

Works

  • Kurt, Ümit (2012). "Türk'ün Büyük, Biçare Irkı" Türk Yurdu'nda Milliyetçiliğin Esasları (1911-1916) [The Great, Hopeless Turkish Race: Fundamentals of Turkish Nationalism in the Turkish Homeland, 1911-1916] (in Turkish). Iletişim. ISBN 9789750510397.
  • Akçam, Taner; Kurt, Ümit (2015). The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78238-624-7.
  • Kurt, Ümit; Sarafian, Ara (January 1, 2020). Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire. The Press at California State University, Fresno. ISBN 978-0912201627.
  • Kurt, Ümit (2021). The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-24794-9.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Ümit Kurt". The Polonsky Academy. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Life after the Strassler Center: Ümit Kurt, Ph.D. '16". Clark Now | Clark University. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  3. ^ Kurt, Ümit (23 December 2021). "The Lost Armenians of Gaziantep". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Ümit Kurt to present "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in the Ottoman Empire"". The Armenian Weekly. 2021-04-05. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  5. ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (2021). "The Armenians of Aintab: the economics of genocide in an Ottoman province: by Ümit Kurt, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2021, 379 pp, $45, ISBN 9780674247949". Turkish Studies: 1–3. doi:10.1080/14683849.2021.1936693. S2CID 236303212.
  6. ^ Tusan, Michelle (2021). "Ü. Kurt, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province". Canadian Journal of History. 56 (2): 203–205. doi:10.3138/cjh.56.2-br12. S2CID 238806199.

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