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The book’s title issues a stark indictment; the text methodically and dispassionately sustains it. In February 1914, international pressure forced the Ottomans to acquiesce to eventual self-rule for ...
The Young Turks who now ruled the Ottoman Empire wanted to strengthen it, spooking its Balkan neighbors. The Balkan Wars that followed resulted in the loss of 33 percent of the empire’s ...
It was popularized after the eponymous Ottoman political group rose to power in the early 20th century; a trio of Young Turks (“Jön Türkler,” in Turkish) led the Ottoman government during ...
It did not. The Austrians annexed Bosnia and the Italians invaded Libya. In 1912, the Balkan nations allied and struck: Turkey lost almost all its European possessions, including Salonica (modern-day ...
The Young Turks' Ana Kasparian shredded California Democrats over their handling of the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles ...
The Ottoman Empire once covered parts of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and was home to Turks, Kurds, Armenians and many others. But by the start of World War I in 1914, it was crumbling.
The once-moderate Young Turks reform movement, which rose to power in 1908, grew increasingly nationalist and Muslim-centric as Ottoman fortunes dimmed. As a result, Constantinople's attention ...
Elie Wiesel has said that denial is the final phase of genocide, a second killing. Between 1915 and 1923, the Young Turks cleansed the former Ottoman Empire of 3 million Christians, including ...
That term is the Young Turks, used to describe a handful of junior partners at CAA. Honestly, I assumed it would fade as time passed, but with the publication of Powerhouse, it’s clear I was wrong.