Ugur Umit Ungur enhances what Umit Kurt studied with the CUP working on a local level considering how local officials carried out government orders for confiscation of properties, deportation and killing. Professor Ungur lists eight steps of the process: persecutions of leading Armenians in a wide variety of professions; deportations of Armenians to the Syrian desert; expropriation of properties; mass murder; forced assimilation of women and children; assault on cultural identity with destruction of Armenian churches etc.; artificially created famine; and destruction of material culture. This whole process can be seen as an effort of the Turks to have Moslems control the land and property in every area and seeing all classes of Moslem Turkish society involved. And, as Kurt found in Aintab, those who engaged in expropriation of Armenian property and deportation of Armenians benefitted after the war in gaining control of businesses and properties. A graphic example is the postwar fate of a copper factory that came under the total control of Moslem Turks after the genocide. Ungur concludes that these eight processes were genocide with a clear purpose of removing Armenians from the land and population of Anatolia.
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