The Young Turks organization
also: Iliad, IDIAD, idiot, idiotist, idiotists
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Claims (6)
The Young Turks carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“known as Iliad, took power in Turkey and brought the country into an alliance with Germany. They were the original Young Turks. Their cruelty and violence still reverberates there today. In the first months of World War I, the Young Turks i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 4:50
The Young Turks founded
Turkey book_quoted
“known as Iliad, took power in Turkey and brought the country into an alliance with Germany. They were the original Young Turks. Their cruelty and violence still reverberates there today. In the first months of World War I, the Young Turks i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 4:50
Jamal Pasha attempted_coup_against
The Young Turks book_quoted
“and convinced him to carry an offer to the governments of the associated powers. If Tsarist Russia, France, and Britain would back him, Jamal promised he would undertake a coup of the young Turks in the massacres and take Turkey out of the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 11:39
West Germany pardoned
The Young Turks book_quoted
“Dictatorship crumbled as the war drew to a close and a new western-backed Turkish government signed the armistice with the associated powers in late 1918. Two days later, most of the senior IDIAD leaders fled their country for Germany, whic…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 14:24
Mustafa Kemal pardoned
The Young Turks book_quoted
“organizing escapes of those accused, and sparked large demonstrations and public protests against the trials. Most importantly, Britain, France, and the U.S. were at that time vying with one another to divide up the vast oil and mineral wea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 16:47
Associated Powers pardoned
The Young Turks book_quoted
“to new Turkish borders, officially recognizing the Ataturk government, abandoning any claim on behalf of the Armenian Republic, and specifically agreed to an amnesty for all idiotists who had been convicted in the earlier trials that actual…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 30:00
Mentions (18)
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It's back when the Detroit News was putting that stuff out about Jack Ruby by South Panther that has like some WTF stuff. And it's like, we can't believe that that was in Daily Papers in the 70s when it was. And so what's the point here? Th…
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began pressing for political independence, which is exactly what happened when they redefined Kurdistan and put another minority under Turkish rule in the south, known as the Kurds. Exactly what happens. If you oppress people, they're going…
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known as Iliad, took power in Turkey and brought the country into an alliance with Germany. They were the original Young Turks. Their cruelty and violence still reverberates there today. In the first months of World War I, the Young Turks i…
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and security. The IDIAD bent the power of the Turkish state to its own purpose. Beginning in late 1914 and accelerating over the next three years, the Turkish government rounded up Armenian men for forced labor, worked many to death buildin…
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surviving Turkish, German, and U.S. documents established that the IDIAD expected to strike quickly and to keep deportations and massacres secret and to exterminate the Armenians as a race before the outside world learned of any of it. The …
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denouncing the mass killings of Armenians as crimes against humanities. They warned the leaders of Turkish governments that they would be held personally responsible. But there was little behind the rhetoric. The associated powers basically…
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and convinced him to carry an offer to the governments of the associated powers. If Tsarist Russia, France, and Britain would back him, Jamal promised he would undertake a coup of the young Turks in the massacres and take Turkey out of the …
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betrayal of his colleagues for propaganda or intelligence purposes. As far as can be determined, the young Turks never learned of his secret correspondence with the enemy. By the time Paris Peace Conference began, there was widespread senti…
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Dictatorship crumbled as the war drew to a close and a new western-backed Turkish government signed the armistice with the associated powers in late 1918. Two days later, most of the senior IDIAD leaders fled their country for Germany, whic…
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including state and local administrators, party activists, Turkish businessmen, and farmers who had seized Armenian property, policemen, and a variety of specialists that were culpable in the mass violence. The new Turkish government arrest…
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theft, and similar offenses. The new Turkish authorities carried out a series of these trials between 1919 and 1920, placing on the public record an important collection of confessions of former IDIAD members, secret state and party documen…
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several hundred leaders that were culpable in the crimes. Much of the evidence was published in an official Turkish parliamentary gazette. The trials were strongly opposed by a rising Turkish nationalist movement, however, which regarded th…
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organizing escapes of those accused, and sparked large demonstrations and public protests against the trials. Most importantly, Britain, France, and the U.S. were at that time vying with one another to divide up the vast oil and mineral wea…
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Senior officials of all three Western powers became preoccupied with oil politics in the Middle East. It even led to an awkward new term called basically oil diplomacy. For a short time after the war, the three allies pressed the new Turkis…
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But the associated powers could not agree among themselves on the terms of the division of the Mosul oil fields. A new fighting broke out between Armenian nationalists who sought to establish their republic they believed had been guaranteed…
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to new Turkish borders, officially recognizing the Ataturk government, abandoning any claim on behalf of the Armenian Republic, and specifically agreed to an amnesty for all idiotists who had been convicted in the earlier trials that actual…
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freeing of all of the Nazis, even the ones that had been given life in prison. It's the exact same thing. Many of the top idiotists had fled Turkey in 1918 and were assassinated by Armenian commandos that went after them. Talat, T-A-L-A-T, …
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was another result of that new treaty. There were several more years of squabbles before the U.S.-European disputes over the Mosul oil fields were finally settled. The point was nonetheless clear. Western governments had discarded wartime p…