The Kurds and the Armenian Genocide:
Collaboration and Resistance

April 8, 2015

A public lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör (Associate Professor of History, Utrecht University, Netherlands) 

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

In the spring of 1915, the Ottoman government launched the destruction of the Armenian population through a combination of deportation, expropriation, mass murder, and forced assimilation. The perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were mainly Turks, Kurds, and Caucasian peoples such as Chechens and Circassians. The Kurdish peoples, as perpetrators and bystanders, were involved in both collaboration and resistance. This lecture will focus on how and why Kurds chose to get involved in the genocide, and why some instead resisted

Uğur Ümit Üngör, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Utrecht University and Research Fellow at the Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His research looks at state and nation formation, and the sociology of mass violence.