dec 29, 1888 - Committee of Union and Progress

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A revolutionary group (lead by Mehmet Talaat, leader of the Young Turks) that aimed to ethnically cleanse and erase certain groups of people from the Ottoman Empire, with Armenians as the primary target of this idea. The ideas that backed this group eventually lead to the coup against Sultan Abdul Hamid II and enforced hate towards Armenians.

---. www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/committee-union-and-progress. Accessed 10 Oct. 2022.

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