Serkan Engin writes: “The wholesale extermination of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Nestorians and Pontian Greeks during World War I has been aptly described as “Christian genocides”. The perpetrators of these massive atrocities were Muslim Turks and Kurds spurred on by the Turkish Ottoman government. Sometimes these genocides are explained by the nationalism of the Ottoman government led by supposedly progressive Union and Progress Organization. However, those who actually did the killing – the predatory bands of the “Secret Organization” (in Turkish: Teşkilatı Mahsusa) – were not motivated by national concerns but found their justification in Islam.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:27:22 +0000
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