Editing Social Darwinism (section)

==Young Turks==
The [[Committee of Union and Progress]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]] adopted social Darwinist ideology. Belief that there was a life-or-death conflict between Turks and other ethnicities motivated them to carry out genocides and ethnic cleansing campaigns against the [[Armenian genocide|Armenians]]. Social Darwinism enabled them to view extermination of entire population groups and the murder of women and children as a necessary and justified course of action.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Extermination of Ottoman Armenians by the Young Turk Regime (1915–1916) {{!}} Sciences Po Mass Violence and Resistance – Research Network |journal=Extermination-ottoman-armenians-young-turk-regime-1915-1916.HTML |date=25 January 2016 |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/extermination-ottoman-armenians-young-turk-regime-1915-1916.html |language=en|quote=the subsciption of the Young Turks to Social Darwinism (the theory of the application to humans of the survival-of-the-fittest in the animal world) had convinced them that the construction of the Turkish nation would be realized through the elimination of the Armenians}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kurt |first1=Umit |last2=Gurpinar |first2=Dogan |title=The Young Turk Historical Imagination in the Pursuit of Mythical Turkishness and its Lost Grandeur (1911–1914) |journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |date=2016 |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=560–574 |doi=10.1080/13530194.2016.1139443|s2cid=159857101 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kieser |first1=Hans-Lukas |editor1-last=Friedman |editor1-first=Jonathan C. |title=The Routledge History of the Holocaust |date=2010 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1136870606 |chapter-url=https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203837443.ch3 |language=en |chapter=Germany and the Armenian genocide of 1915–17|doi=10.4324/9780203837443.ch3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Suny |first1=Ronald Grigor|author-link=Ronald Grigor Suny |title="They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide|title-link=They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1400865581 |pages=149, 245}}
* {{lay source |template=cite encyclopedia |author=Ronald Grigor Suny |date=26 May 2015 |title=Armenian Genocide |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/armenian_genocide |encyclopedia=1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kieser |first1=Hans-Lukas |author1-link=Hans-Lukas Kieser |title=[[Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide]] |date=2018 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1400889631 |pages=7, 61, 85, 264–265, ''passim''|quote=[Talat's] belief in social Darwinism and a total war—jihad made the annihilation of civilians, including women and children, acceptable for him.}}
* {{lay source |template=cite encyclopedia |last1=Kieser |first1=Hans-Lukas |entry=Pasha, Talat |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/pasha_talat |encyclopedia=1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ter-Matevosyan |first1=Vahram |title=Iran and the Caucasus |date=2015 |pages=387–401 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/ic/19/4/article-p387_8.xml |language=en |chapter=Turkish Experience with Totalitarianism and Fascism: Tracing the Intellectual Origins|volume=19 |issue=4 |doi=10.1163/1573384X-20150408 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bloxham |first1=Donald|author-link=Donald Bloxham |title=The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians|title-link=The Great Game of Genocide |date=2005 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0199226887 |language=en|page=111}}</ref>{{excessive inline|date=March 2025}}