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From massacres in the 1890s to the Adana massacre of 1909, in which Ottoman Muslims killed and tortured thousands of Armenians, he shows how radicalization and annihilation practices at the peripheries of empire culminated in centrally coordinated decisions. Yet the genocidal process was not purely top-down. While central directives were crucial, mass participation by ordinary Muslims--including Turks, Kurds, and Circassians--played a decisive role. 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