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Updated: May 25, 2025
Such a version of Panislamism leaves no room for an Arab race under Ottoman rule, and the "Panturanian" address given by the Turkish Professor at the Military College in Constantinople had a sequel which showed the Arabs what they, too, had to expect from Turkey's entrance into the War. There were Arabs among the officers whom the Professor was addressing, and one of them ventured to protest.
Naturally the Turkish people accepted the good things the Government offered them, and naturally this reconciled them momentarily to the War. Thus in the Armenian atrocities the Young Turks made Panislamism and Turkish Nationalism work together for their ends, but the development of their policy shows the Islamic element receding and the Nationalist gaining ground.
At the Committee's congress in 1909 the Nationalists were shouted down with the cry: "Our goal is organisation and nothing else ." But Young Turkish ideals rapidly narrowed. Liberalism gave way to Panislamism, Panislamism to Panturanianism, and the "Ottoman State Idea" changed from "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" to the Turkification of non-Turkish nationalities by force.
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