Source: Library of Congress, 1915–1920. Armenian woman kneeling next to her dead child in a field within the border of Aleppo, in Syria (where Armenians who survived the death marches grew up, including my own grandparents and great-grandparents).

When a Show’s Name is Founded in Genocide

Cue The Young Turks, a Name Responsible for Wholesale Slaughter

Cenk Ugyur, Founder of The Young Turks

It’s not so much a business name as it is an entire business brand.

The Young Turks were the political party responsible for carrying out the mass extermination of my people between 1914 and 1923. The Armenians suffered at the hands of the three senior most commanders that were bred out of that movement:

• Ismail Enver Pasha: Minister of War
• Ahmed Djemal Pasha: Minister of the Navy
• Mehmed Talaat Pasha: Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior

The New York Times posting about the extermination, circa December 1915:

Source: Headline of The New York Times, December 15, 1915.

Telegram sent by the U.S. Ambassador, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., describing the killings of Armenians as “a campaign of race extermination”.