Re: The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret!
If your concerns are true then it appears the journalist has been doing his dodgy journalism by conflating the two …
*Historians like Ahmed Refik, who served as an intelligence officer in the Ottoman army, averred that it was the aim of the Young Turks to destroy the Armenians, who were mostly Christian. The Young Turks, under Ataturk’s direction, also expelled Greek Christians from Turkish cities and attempted to commit a smaller-scale genocide of the Assyrians, who were also mainly Christian.
One Young Turk from Salonica, Mehmet Talat, was the official who carried out the genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians.
*It appears that the initial mention of the Assyrians was “attempted” but later on he conveniently short handed it making it appear like an actual genocide …