After the consent of all the Powers was obtained, then “the Russian draft [of reforms] was revised by the ambassadors of the Powers at Constantinople, accepted with modifications, by the Young Turkish Government, and actually promulgated by them on the 8th of February, 1914.”[158]
Could such a peaceful procedure have offered the Young Turks an excuse of provocation for their atrocities committed in the following year?
FOOTNOTES:
[153] October, 1908.
[154] On the 8th of Oct., 1908.
[155] The New International Year Book for the Year 1912, p. 734. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.
[156] Expected by the Holy War that was to be declared by Sheikh-ul-Islam; as it has been done since Turkey joined the Central Powers.
[157] The “Martyrdom of Armenia,” by Paul Perrin, in The New Armenia, May 15, 1916, New York.
[158] “The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-16,” Documents presented to Viscount Grey by Viscount Bryce, p. 635, London.