DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
NATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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they were Muslim
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they were in a civil war with the Turks
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the Turks feared they would support Russia if Russia invaded
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they supported the central powers during WWI
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Detailed explanation-1: -Of these, Ottoman Armenians were considered the most dangerous, because CUP leaders feared that their homeland in Anatolia-claimed as the last refuge of the Turkish nation-would break away from the empire as the Balkans had.
Detailed explanation-2: -First Armenian Massacre In response to large-scale protests by Armenians, Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered.
Detailed explanation-3: -Armenians originally had been thought of as a loyal millet, but after 1878 the Armenians became an instrument of certain foreign powers to intervene in the Ottoman regime and internal policy-the Ottomans began to see them as a threat.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Armenian Genocide laid the ground for the more homogeneous nation-state that eventually became the Republic of Turkey. By the end of the war, more than 90 percent of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were gone, and many traces of their former presence had been erased.