Edward Frederic Benson

Crescent and Iron Cross Edward Frederic Benson

When the Young Turks came into power, they proclaimed that they were going to weld the Ottoman Empire into one homogeneous and harmonious whole. But by a piece of brilliant paradoxical reasoning, says Mr. Benson, Germany determined that it was she who was going to do it for them... The process resulted in the first Genocide of the Twentieth Century, the Armenian Genocide, as well as countless massacres and atrocities towards other Ottoman minorities, the Greeks, Arabs, Assyrians, Bulgarians...