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LOL you know I had discussions with Aud and Patrick about using that exact phrase.
But I was more concerned that someone object to it on the grounds of both a misunderstanding of/repugnance/hatred towards anything not specifically Western Christian and possibly the excesses that came later and their continuing repercussions (i.e. Armenians, Kurds, and the continuing repercussions from the break-up and re-colonization by European Powers of the old Ottoman Empire . . . can we all say Syria, Alawites, & Baath Party for example? /*extreme sarcasm*/)
I was using it very specifically in it's original meaning, i.e. 'Les Jeunes Turcs' aka 'Genç Türkle/Jön Türkler', the original idealists who became the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) who were a liberal, multi-ethnic secular Turkish reform movement trying to first reform and then do away with in the old absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Empire specifically during what is called the Revolutionary Era of 1906-1908While it is true that in the end they specifically were not ( ... )
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