HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Armenian Revolutionary Federation, The Young Turks, Dhimmi
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They didn"t look suspicious but there were no coins in these bags but there were weapons and bombs. Garo: bedros parian (1873-1896) nom de guerre papken suini, karekin pastermadjian (1872-1923) nom de guerre armen, these were the leaders and they got into the bank and started to take over the hostages. They started throwing bombs onto the men that were banging on the door trying to stop the disastrous event. The ones in the bank waited and the russian representative of the great powers started to negotiate with the hostage takers. While they are being sent off, we see crowds of turks rampage through the streets of istanbul and attacking armenians that they encounter. Empires reach outward and draw, usually coercively, peoples whose difference is made explicit under its rule. The concept of empire presumes that different people within the polity will be governed differently. : the ottoman empire: expansionist, multi-ethnic, hierarchies and differences c, hierarchies and differences.
