SCHOLAR: ITTIHADISTS’ GOAL WAS OTTOMAN SOCIETY’S TRANSFORMATION

12:51, 22.04.2015
Region:World News, Armenia, Turkey
Theme: Politics

YEREVAN. – The objective of the Ittihadists in the Ottoman Empire
was not solely the extermination of the ethnic groups, but the
transformation of the Ottoman society in the absence of these groups.

The president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
(IAGS), Daniel Feierstein, noted the aforementioned at the two-day
International Social and Political Global Forum against the Crime of
Genocide. This event is devoted to the Armenian Genocide Centennial,
and it got underway Wednesday in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.

In Feierstein’s words, this transformation was also the objective
of Nazi Germany, and terrorism was used as a tool to achieve this
objective.

The IAGS director stated that if we analyze the genocide from the
perspective of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire, we would
see that the Assyrians, Greeks and other nations have suffered to a
lesser degree.

“We need to challenge our thinking in terms of reconsideration of
the Armenian Genocide,” Daniel Feierstein added.

As reported earlier, about 600 participants from fifty countries are
taking part in the International Social and Political Global Forum
against the Crime of Genocide.