title: The Roots of the Racial Nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress: Ideas, Individuals, Influences
abstract: The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides perpetrated within the Ottoman Empire by the Turkish government at the beginning of the 20th century were not only the direct implementations of ideological convictions or a result of a single decision. Those were, rather, the amalgam of certain theories adjusted to political and economic developments in the country and the desire to turn the multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire into a Turkish nation-state. Stressing the importance of ideas and ideol
journal: International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies