From 'patriotism' to mass murder: Dr. Mehmed Resid (1873-1919)

Title: From 'patriotism' to mass murder: Dr. Mehmed Resid (1873-1919)
Creator: Kieser, Hans-Lukas
Relation: A question of genocide: Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire p. 126-148
Relation: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-question-of-genocide-9780195393743?cc=au&lang=en&#
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: Dr. Mehmed Reşid was among the founders of the Ittihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti (Committee of Union and Progress, CUP). But unlike cofounder Dr. Abdullah Cevdet, or other émigrés from Russia, Dr. Ali Hüseyinzade and Yusuf Akçura, he did not excel intellectually. Neither was he a member of the hard core of the CUP that had been forming since 1906. Rather idealistic, and fancying himself to be incorruptible, he lacked the pragmatic sense of power of colleagues such as Dr. Nâzim and Bahaeddin Şakir, or of his future boss, Minister of the Interior Tâlât Bey. All the more, he can be seen as a typical representative of the Ittihadist generation with a middle-class background and Western-style education, while at the same time, a distrustful, proud and radical nationalist. How could a well-educated, upright patriot become a mass murderer?
Subject: Dr Mehmed Reside; mass murder; committee of union and progress (CUP)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058460
Identifier: uon:16414
Identifier: ISBN:9780195393743
Language: eng

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