In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

The people believed in that a new era in the history of the Ottoman Empire had dawned. Yes, shortly after, it turned out, that the Young Turks were well disguised ardent nationalists, who continued ...

Many of the real life "Young Turks" worked with the Committee of Union and Progress as it gained power in the Ottoman Empire and carried out policies including genocide and expulsion. Label ...

When the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in November 1914, it was a marriage of convenience, with both sides getting something they wanted out of the alliance. The Young Turk triumvirate ...

Under the Ottoman Empire, even in the glory days when it ... the extermination of Armenians during World War I by his Young Turk predecessors, calling it a “shameful act,” he presided over ...