Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923 Book

List of abbreviations

Map of the South Marmara

Introduction 1

A note on geography and sources 8

1 Before they became Turks: immigration, political economy, and identity in the pre-war South Marmara 12

2 The politics of the condemned: the South Marmara during the First World War 37

3 In the company of killers: crime, recruitment, and the birth of the national movement in the South Marmara 55

4 The politics of revenge: the rise and fall of the Loyalist opposition in the South Marmara 81

5 Separatism, violence, and collaboration in bandit country: the South Marmara during the Greek occupation 107

6 Settling accounts: Circassians, Albanians, and the founding of the Turkish Republic 136

Conclusion 166

App. 1 Cast of characters 171

App. 2 Glossary of terms 182

Notes 185

Bibliography 239

Index 253