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Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians.

But his latest book represents a new direction for the historian. In the 30-year

genocide, Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities 1894 to

1924, co-authored with Drure Zevey, Morris presents readers with some shocking

facts. While most of us are familiar with the Armenian genocide staged by Turkish forces from

1915 to 1917, few know that the Armenian genocide was one of the final acts in a decades

long campaign of killing and expulsion against all of Turkey's

Christian inhabitants, Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians alike.

Last week I phoned Mr Morris and Israel and spoke to him about this tragic but curiously little-known

period in history, as well as the latest developments in Israel and the wider Middle East.

Here are excerpts from our conversation.

Mr Morris, you have written about a dozen books and your most recent book is, as I understand it, the first book that is not about Israel and the Arab-Israeli dispute, you have chosen another extremely heavy subject, what you describe

as genocide against

Turkish Christians. Could you describe how you pick that subject?

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