Djemal Pacha citations (5 citations)

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“I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!”

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Ahmed Djemal

Quoted in "On Secret Service East of Constantinople" - Page 77 - by Peter Hopkirk - History - 2001.
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“With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.”

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Ahmed Djemal

Quoted in "Djemal Pasha In Moscow" - New York Times - June 17, 1920.
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“There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion…”

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Ahmed Djemal

Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer - History - 2006 - Page 246.
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“Our sole aim was, by virtue of this war, to rid ourselves of the lot of them, however many international decisions there were. Each one represented a blow to our…independence…And, just as it was our dearly held goal to lift the Capitulations and the Mt. Lebanon concessions, we also desired to destroy the signed understanding concerning the reforms in Eastern Anatolia…”

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Ahmed Djemal

Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer - History - 2006 - Page 118.
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