Hans lukas kieser biography for kids

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If you feel that your material has been improperly used or incorrectly attributed on our site, please do not hesitate to contact us. This was done with Talaat's scheming. In parliament he pretended otherwise. This was the work of cunning. He'd tested his demographic engineering powers. So on and from April 24, for Armenians Talaat and his operatives provided two options under the Ottoman Empire's new laws and directives.

With the men typically already taken away and shot, the women, children and elderly could either accept deportation leaving behind their farms, factories, trades, villages, cities, homelands and possessions. Otherwise they could accept death now through suicide or death later through forced marches with no provision made for food, water or shelter.

Where clemency was possible - conversion to Islam together with abandonment of Armenian heritage culture as schools, cultural institutions and church property were nationalised or came under government control.

Hans lukas kieser biography for kids

Under Kemal Attaturk in that extended to compulsory adoption of Turkish surnames under the Surname Law. Throughout some reprieve was available to Armenians living in large urban areas such as Constantinople and Aleppo and only then because of the presence of foreign press and diplomats. A very original contribution by Kieser is his use of primary sources evidencing why and how Talaat rooted for war in We learn that he, Enver and others were passionate about the possibility of war, unlike allies, in particular Germany.

Their Committee's messianic fantasy sought to use war as a furnace for demographic engineering and demolition concepts used by Kieser , to replace the Ottoman ethno-religious millet system with a Turkish monocultural state with its homeland in a redefined Anatolia, and - as opportunity appeared or reappeared during the war - a territory contiguously extending across the Caucasus to join with the Panturkic mythologised region of Turan in Central Asia.

Talaat stringed all that into motion, though not completely, as Alevis, Kurds and others remained, treated not equally but differently to Turks. For Christian citizens and subject peoples the distortions in his war furnace were so profound and so successful that to the present day Turkey and its victims, now including Kurds and others, are haunted by the ghost of Talaat, a ghost perpetuated by creation myths, denialism and leveraging geopolitical geography.

Kieser sketches a portrait in fine detail. We read of Talaat's career as a postal clerk teaching him how to use a telegraph machine in the s; and having one installed in his home in Constantinople as the Minister of the Interior, and virtual foreign minister and war strategist. From April to July Talaat issued telegraphs and directives to Special Organisations, rogue bands and governors on an industrial scale co-ordinating and monitoring operations in the killing fields of the eastern Armenian populated provinces, then across into refugee fields and camps nearby in Syria, and by driving those banished people to yet more barren concentration camps and death traps for Armenians banished to Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa.

Having done to the Armenian Question effectively in three months what, as Talaat said, Sultan Abdul Hamid II had tried to do in thirty seven years, Talaat turned from to treat similarly other subject peoples including the Pontic Greeks, Assyrians and others. They too did not conform to the messiantic monocultural vision of Panturkism as an ideology to replace Ottomanism.

From their displacement too revenge could be extracted for the Ottoman Empire's loss of territory, something felt closely by many in the Committee who like Talaat originated from Muslims displaced from regions of the Balkans and educated in the port city of Salonica. There is in this book a wealth of insights for students of many aspects of the history of those times.

Awards [ edit ]. Selected bibliography [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Retrieved Hans-Lukas Kieser". Archived from the original on Hans-Lukas Kieser. ISBN Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. Under the guise of World War I, his policy to end the Armenian Question once and for all proved to be a precursor to other radicalised policies in Central Europe in years to come.

He casts Kemal Ataturk - who from his power base in Ankara continued to implement the central CUP doctrine of the establishment of a homogeneous, Turkish-Muslim homeland in all of Asia Minor ruled by a strong, single party authoritarian government - as the spiritual child of Gokalp.