Pt I. Young Turks and Armenians intertwined in the opposition (1895-1908) : Abdülhamid and the Ottoman opposition ; The December 1907 Second Congress of the Anti-Hamidian Opposition: final "preparations for a revolution"

Pt II. Young Turks and Armenians facing the test of power (1908-12) : Istanbul in the first days of the revolution: "Our common religion is freedom" ; Young Turks and Armenians facing the test of "The 31 March Incident" and the massacres of Cilicia ; The Ottoman government's and the Armenian authorities' political responses to the massacres in Cilicia ; The CUP's first deviations: the 1909, 1910, and 1911 Congresses ; Armenian revolutionaries and Young Turks: the Anatolian provinces and Istanbul, 1910-12

Pt III. Young Turks and Armenians face to face (December 1912-March 1915) : Transformations in the Committee of Union and Progress after the First Balkan War, 1913 ; The Armenian organizations' handling of the reform question ; The establishment of the Ittihadist dictatorship and the plan to "homogenize" Anatolia ; Destruction as self-construction: ideology in command ; Turkey's entry into war ; The Teşkilât-t Mahsusa on the Caucasian front and the first military operations ; The first acts of violence ; Putting the plan into practice, and the "temporary deportation law"

Pt IV. In the vortex of the war: the first phase of the genocide : The Armenian population of the empire on the eve of the war: the demographic issue ; The Ottoman Armenians' socio-economic situation on the eve of the war ; The eradication of the Armenian population in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire: reasons for a regional approach ; Deportations and massacres in the vilayet of Erzerum ; Resistance and massacres in the vilayet of Van ; Deportations and massacres in the vilayets of : Bitlis ; Dyarbekir ; Harput/Mamurer ul-Aziz ; Sivas ; Trebizond ; Angora ; Kastamonu ; Constantinople in the period of the deportations and massacres ; Deportations in the vilayet of Edirne and the mutesarifat of Biǧa/Dardanelles ; Deportations in the mutesarifat of Ismit ; Deportations and massacres in the vilayet of Bursa and the mutesarifat of Kütahya ; Deportations and massacres in the vilayets of : Aydin ; Konya ; The deportees on the Istanbul-Ismit-Eskişehir-Konya-Bozanti route and along the trajectory of the Bagdadbahn ; Deportations from Zeitun and Dörtyol: repression or genocidal program? ; Deportations in: the mutesarifat of Marash ; the vilayet of Adana ; the sancaks of Ayntab and Antakya ; the mutesarifat of Urfa.

Pt V. The second phase of the genocide Fall 1915-December 1916 : The Aleppo sub-directorate for deportees: an agency in the service of the party-state's liquidation policy ; Displaced populations and the main deportation routes ; Aleppo, the center of the genocidal system and of relief operations for the deportees ; The camps in Suruc, Arabpunar, and Ras ul-Ayn and the zones of relegation in the vilayet of Mosul ; The concentration camps along "the Euphrates line" ; The deportees on the Hama-Homs-Damascus-Dera'a-Jerusalem-Amman-Maan line ; The peculiar case of Ahmed Cemal: the Ittihad's independent spirit or an agent of the genocide? ; The Armenian deportees on the Bagdadbahn construction sites in the Taurus and Amanus mountains ; The second phase of the genocide: the dissolution of the Armenian patriarchate and the decision to liquidate the last deportees

Pt V. The last days of the Ottoman Empire: the executioners and their judges face-to-face : Grand Vizier Talât Pasha's new Turkey, or reanimating pan-Turkism ; The refounding of the Young Turk Party shortly before and shortly after the armistice ; The debates in the Ottoman parliament in the wake of the Mudros armistice ; The Mazhar governmental commission of inquiry and the creation of courts martial ; The Armenian survivors in their places of "relegation" in the last days of the war ; The great powers and the question of "crimes against humanity" ; The first trial of the Young Turk criminals before the Istanbul court-martial ; The truncated trial of the main Young Turk leaders ; The trial of the responsible secretaries and the vicissitudes of the subsidiary trials in the provinces ; Mustafa Kemal: from the Young Turk connection to the construction of the nation-state.