The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity

The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire is a 2011 book by Taner Akçam, published by Princeton University Press.

It discusses the role of the Young Turk movement in the Armenian genocide and other ethnic removals.

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.

[1] The author states that there was no single decision to eliminate Armenians but instead the momentum to kill them came at multiple stages.

[3] John Waterbury of Foreign Affairs wrote "the fact that a Turkish historian with access to the Ottoman archives has written this book is of immeasurable significance.