Ahmet Rıza
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Ahmed Rıza Bey was a Turkish activist, intellectual, politician, author, educator, polymath, and a prominent Young Turk. He was an early leader of the Committee of Union and Progress.
Rıza in 1909
Ahmet Rıza in his early years
Rıza was highly influenced by Auguste Comte's and his works
In his middle ages
During the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1917, several Turkish civilians, politicians and military leaders refused to participate in the massacres and loot
Ahmet Rıza
…During the Balkan Wars he went to Paris to curry diplomatic goodwill for Turkey among the Europeans. In 1915, Rıza was one of the only Ottoman politicians who condemned the Armenian genocide. About a law to confiscate Armenian property, he stated in parliament: "It is also not legal to classify the goods mentioned by…
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