Ataturk’s Speech Beyond the Words
Armenian Genocide, Greek Genocide, and Assyrian Genocide, all of these horrific acts lead to one geographical route “Asia Minor” or what is currently known as the Republic of Turkey. After abolishing the office of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet VI in 1922, the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey is announced with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as its first president. Mustafa Kamal Ataturk is an army officer and the organizer of a militant independent nationalist movement in Ankara. After the allied power forces a peace treaty which provided independence to the Armenian and puts the south Anatolia under French influence, Ataturk at the head of his army crushes the Armenians and forces the French troops to withdraw from …show more content…
His book “The Dark Side of Democracy” presents a new theory of ethnic cleansing based on horrific example, like Armenian Genocide and Nazi Holocaust. Additionally, Mann argues that murderous cleansing is modern and it is a result of a confusion between demos, and ethnos. Demo is the Greek word of the mass population, and ethno is the Greek word of the ethnic groups. Mann focuses on theorizing the origins of ethnic cleansing by focusing on political power’s relation within the ethnic groups considering the majorities and minorities. According to Mann, ethnic cleansing is an outcome of “four interrelated sets of power networks (ideological, economic, military, and political), all of which are necessary to its accomplishment, but one of which can be regarded as causally primary.” Moreover, Mann creates a model of ethnic cleansing with his eight smartly written theories. In the first chapter, “the Argument”, Mann explains common terms, introduces a timeline, and studies nationalist masses with authoritarian elites. In this chapter, he concludes that the murderous ethnic cleansing is a fight on a state or to reach the goal of forming that state between two ethnic groups; all in the name of the
Armenian Genocide, Greek Genocide, and Assyrian Genocide, all of these horrific acts lead to one geographical route “Asia Minor” or what is currently known as the Republic of Turkey. After abolishing the office of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet VI in 1922, the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey is announced with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as its first president. Mustafa Kamal Ataturk is an army officer and the organizer of a militant independent nationalist movement in Ankara. After the allied power forces a peace treaty which provided independence to the Armenian and puts the south Anatolia under French influence, Ataturk at the head of his army crushes the Armenians and forces the French troops to withdraw from …show more content…
His book “The Dark Side of Democracy” presents a new theory of ethnic cleansing based on horrific example, like Armenian Genocide and Nazi Holocaust. Additionally, Mann argues that murderous cleansing is modern and it is a result of a confusion between demos, and ethnos. Demo is the Greek word of the mass population, and ethno is the Greek word of the ethnic groups. Mann focuses on theorizing the origins of ethnic cleansing by focusing on political power’s relation within the ethnic groups considering the majorities and minorities. According to Mann, ethnic cleansing is an outcome of “four interrelated sets of power networks (ideological, economic, military, and political), all of which are necessary to its accomplishment, but one of which can be regarded as causally primary.” Moreover, Mann creates a model of ethnic cleansing with his eight smartly written theories. In the first chapter, “the Argument”, Mann explains common terms, introduces a timeline, and studies nationalist masses with authoritarian elites. In this chapter, he concludes that the murderous ethnic cleansing is a fight on a state or to reach the goal of forming that state between two ethnic groups; all in the name of the