Armenian Genocide
(Angelfire, 2011) (Wikipedia, 2011)
1.3. Young Turks and the Young Turk Revolution
Young Turk Revolution found place in 1908-1909, it was the first bourgeois revolution in
Turkey. The Young Turks were a group of intellectuals of different ideological backgrounds
who united against the authoritarian regime of Sultan Abdulhamid. (Stjepanovi, 2006)
The main revolution struggles took place in the areas of ecclesiastic politics in Jerusalem.
With its Armenian and Greek Patriarchates and the Chief Rabbinate, Jerusalem became a
central point of the struggles among the Jews, Armenians, and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.
(Matossian, 1994)
1.4. Armenian Genocide, 1905-1917 period
On November 2, 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the Central
Powers. The Middle Eastern became the center of action of World War I. The strugglers were
the Ottoman Empire, with some help from the other Central Powers, and mainly the British
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