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## Constantinople THECONSTANTINOPLEWARCRIMESTRIALS,hadtheynotfal len apart, would have been remembered as comparable only to Nuremberg and Tokyo. In April 1919, an Ottoman court-created under massive British pressure-had before it some of the most important leaders from the wartime Ottoman government: men who had once held the mighty titles of minister of foreign affairs, minister of justice (two of them), party secretary-general, and even grand vizier. They were there to stand trial for war crimes and for the 1915 genocide of about a million Armenians. 1 The Constantinople tribunal also held trials for the deportation and slaughter of Armenians from Yozgat and Trebizond. British and Ottoman jails were crammed with cabinet ministers, provincial governors, senior military officers, and other major war crimes suspects. Out of the eight Ottoman leaders who drew up the decree taking the empire into war against the Allies, fully five of them-the grand vizier, the shaikh ul-Islam (the top religious official), the president of the council of state, and the ministers of justice and public instruction-wound up in custody. 2 And yet the tribunal has been completely forgotten in the West, exc

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN