The Young Turks, who of late years have controlled the Empire, have signally failed to arrest the great movement which we have above described. They have further developed their policy of Turkifying what remains to them of the Empire during the existing war. Their massacres and deportations of Armenians in Asia Minor have been on a scale and with a cruelty without precedent in history. Whether responsibility for this indelible crime will be enforced on them, and whether, as it richly deserves, the Turkish Empire will suffer further reductions, will depend on the issue of the colossal struggle in which the nations of Europe are now engaged. Whatever the future may have in store in these respects, there is one certain moral to be drawn from the story which has been told in these pages, namely that an Empire originally founded on the predatory instincts of an alien military caste, and whose rulers during the last four hundred years have never recognized that they had any responsibility for the good government and well-being of the races subject to them, could not, if there be any law of human progress in the world, be permanent, and was destined ultimately to perish by the sword.
APPENDIX
GENEALOGY OF THE OTTOMAN SULTANS.
| 1. Othman (accession as Emir atat Sugut), 1288. | |||||||||||
| Alaeddin. | |||||||||||
| 2. Orchan, 1326. | |||||||||||
| 3. Murad I, 1360. | |||||||||||
| 4. Bayezid, 1389. | Jacoub. | ||||||||||
| Solyman. | Musa. | Issa. | 5. Mahomet I, 1402. | Mustapha. | |||||||
| 6. Murad II, 1421. | |||||||||||
| 7. Mahomet II, 1451 (deposed). | |||||||||||
| 8. Bayezid II, 1481. | Djem. | ||||||||||
| Khorkand. | Ahmed. | 9. Selim I, 1512. | |||||||||
| 10. Solyman I, 1520. | |||||||||||
| Mustapha. | Bayezid. | 11. Selim II, 1566. | |||||||||
| 12. Murad III, 1574. | |||||||||||
| 13. Mahomet III, 1595. | |||||||||||
| 14. Ahmed I, 1603. | 15. Mustapha 1617 (deposed). | ||||||||||
| 16. Othman II, 1618 (murdered). | 17. Murad IV, 1623. | 18. Ibrahim, 1640 (deposed). | |||||||||
| 19. Mahomet IV, 1648 (deposed). | 20.Solyman II, 1687. | 21. Ahmed II, 1691. | |||||||||
| 22. Mustapha II, 1695 (abdicated). | 23. Ahmed III, 1703 (deposed). | ||||||||||
| 24. Mahmoud I, 1730. | 25. Othman III, 1754. | ||||||||||
| 26. Mustapha III, 1757. | 27. Abdul Hamid I, 1773. | ||||||||||
| 28. Selim III, 1789 (deposed) | |||||||||||
| 29. Mustapha IV, 1807 (deposed). | 30. Mahmoud II, 1808. | ||||||||||
| 31. Abdul Mehzid, 1839. | 32. Abdul Aziz, 1861 (deposed). | ||||||||||
| 33. Murad V, 1876 | 34. Abdul Hamid II, 1876 | 35. Mahomet V, 1908. | |||||||||
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Von Hammer, i. p. 28 (French translation).
[2] Cantemir, p. 20.