''The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire'' is a 2011 book by

Taner Akçam Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as '' A Shameful Act'' ...

, published by

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. It discusses the role of the

Young Turk The Young Turks (, also ''Genç Türkler'') formed as a constitutionalist broad opposition-movement in the late Ottoman Empire against the absolutist régime of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (). The most powerful organization of the movement, a ...

movement in the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

and other ethnic removals. The original version of the book is in

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. The English version has additional content as well as revisions of the original content. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz wrote in the '' Jewish Political Studies Review'' that ''The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity'' unifies the various perspectives of the time period 1913–1918, which the book focuses upon, into one historical narrative. The author states that there was no single decision to eliminate Armenians but instead the momentum to kill them came at multiple stages. Several documents cited by the book had been hitherto unpublished. It is dedicated to

Hrant Dink Hrant Dink (; Western ; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of ''Agos'', journalist, and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper ''Agos'', Dink was a ...

and to

Vahakn Dadrian Vahakn Norair Dadrian (; 26 May 1926 – 2 August 2019) was an Armenian- American sociologist and historian, born in Turkey, professor of sociology, historian, and an expert on the Armenian genocide. Life Dadrian was born in 1926 in Turkey to ...

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John Waterbury of ''

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'' wrote "the fact that a Turkish historian with access to the Ottoman archives has written this book is of immeasurable significance." Charles Carter of '' Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective'', jointly of

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and

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, wrote that the "multi-causal explanation of the genocide is highly convincing".

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