“A Nation in Arms” A Nationalist-Military ideology: German-made Ottoman Execution The German General Baron Colmar von der Goltz, a Prussian Field Marshal and military writer, and the French physicist Gustave Le Bon, a leading French polymath figure, had the most effects on Ottoman and Turkish elites. Goltz was part of the German mission that arrived … Read more
Definition of Genocide Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide establishes that ‘genocide’ means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such: Upon the practical acts that may give rise to genocidal acts, … Read more
There are numerous telegrams attributed to Enver Pasha, as he was one of the leading figures in the Ottoman government during the time of the Armenian Genocide. Hüsamettin Ertürk recalled a speech by Enver Paşa: How could a person forget the plains, the meadows, watered with the blood of our forefathers; abandon those places where … Read more