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| − | '''Nazım Bey''' or '''Dr. Nazım''' (1870 in [[Selanik]] - 1926) was 8th [[Chairman]] of [[Turkcell Super League|Türkiye Süper Ligi]] club [[Fenerbahçe SK]] between 1916-18.<ref>[http://www.fenerbahce.org/kurumsaldetay.asp?ContentID=18 Past Presidents]</ref> Dr. Nazim played a significant role in the [[Armenian genocide]] and the [[Greek genocide|expulsion of Greeks]] in Western Anatolia.<ref name=Fuat>{{cite book|last=Dündar|first=Fuat|title=Crime of Numbers|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=9781412843416|accessdate=16 February 2013|page=62|quote=Dr. Nazım Selanikli (1870–1926), one of the oldest members of the Committe (İstanbul 1899), was one of the responsible for the expulsion of the Ottoman Greeks from Western Anatolia.}}</ref><ref name=Totten>{{cite book|last=Totten|first=Samuel|title=Dictionary of genocide|year=2008|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=9780313346446|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_02aVgTaFDYC&dq|edition=1. publ.|coauthors=Bartrop, Paul R.|accessdate=16 February 2013|pages=303–304}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan|title=Survivors an oral history of the Armenian genocide|year=1993|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520923270|accessdate=16 February 2013|quote=In addition to Drs. Nazim and Shakir, other physicians were involved in the genocide.}}</ref> | + | [[Image:Doktor_Nazim.jpg|thumb|150px|right]] |
| | + | '''Nazım Bey''' or '''Dr. Nazım''' (1870 in Selanik - 1926) was 8th Chairman of club [[Fenerbahce SK]] between 1916-18.<ref>[http://www.fenerbahce.org/kurumsaldetay.asp?ContentID=18 Past Presidents]</ref> <br/>Dr. Nazim was ideologist of "Committee of Union and Progress" and played a significant role in the Armenian genocide and the expulsion of Greeks in Western Anatolia. |
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| − | Dr. Nazim was a leading figure in the [[Turkification]] of the Ottoman empire.<ref name=Totten /> He was a member of the [[Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa]] (Special Organization).<ref name=Kuper>{{cite book|last=Kuper|first=Robert Melson ; with a foreword by Leo|title=Revolution and genocide : on the origins of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust|year=1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=9780226519913|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Zekyebn_tDYC&dq|edition=1st pbk.ed.|accessdate=16 February 2013}}</ref> Many members of this organization eventually participated in the Turkish national movement and had played special roles in the Armenian Genocide.<ref>Taner Akçam, ''Türk Ulusal Kimliği ve Ermeni Sorunu'', İletişim Yayınları, 1992, ISBN 9789754702897 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=rhsUTo2KCLHRmAXXxcS5DQ&ct=result&id=TjwaAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Te%C5%9Fkilat-%C4%B1+Mahsusa%22+%22Ermeni%22&q=%22Ermeni+k%C4%B1r%C4%B1m%C4%B1nda+belli+roller+oynam%C4%B1%C5%9F%22#search_anchor p. 155.]</ref> | + | Dr. Nazim was a leading figure in the Turkification of the Ottoman empire. Many members of this organization eventually participated in the Turkish national movement and had played special roles in the Armenian Genocide.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?ei=rhsUTo2KCLHRmAXXxcS5DQ</ref> In a speech delivered on during the closing remarks of a Committee of Union and Progress meeting, Dr. Nazim has said:<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=BaqmFQtvC-oC</ref><ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=w0Dm4Nl5k08C&dq</ref> And continued by saying, "the procedure this time will be one of total annihilation-it is necessary that not even one single Armenian survive this annihilation". |
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| − | In a speech delivered on during the closing remarks of a [[Committee of Union and Progress]] meeting, Dr. Nazim has said:<ref>{{cite book|last=Rıfat|first=Mevlânzade|title=Türkiye inkılâbının içyüzü|year=1993|publisher=Pınar Yayınları|editor=Metin Hasırcı|accessdate=16 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cummins|first=Joseph|title=The World's Bloodiest History: Massacre, Genocide, and The Scars They Left on Civilization|year=2009|publisher=Fair Winds|isbn=9781616734633|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BaqmFQtvC-oC&dq|edition=illustrated|accessdate=16 February 2013|pages=132–133}}</ref><ref name=Lewy>{{cite book|last=Lewy|first=Guenter|title=The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey : a disputed genocide|year=2005|publisher=University of Utah Press|location=Salt Lake City|isbn=9780874808490|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=w0Dm4Nl5k08C&dq|edition=[Nachdr.].|accessdate=16 February 2013|page=51}}</ref><ref>Rifat, Türkiye, pp. 159–60, quoted in Sarkisian and Sahakian, Vital Issues in Modern Armenian History, p. 32. 40</ref>
| + | During one of the secret meetings of the Young Turks, Dr. Nazim was quoted as saying, "The massacre is necessary. All the non-Turkish elements, whatever nation they belong to, should be exterminated".<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=CB4Bh0-zrgoC</ref> In February 1915, two months prior to the commencement of the Armenian genocide, Dr. Nazim declared a new government policy which would "produce total annihilation" in which would be "essential that no Armenians survives". Due to his role in the Armenian genocide, Dr. Nazim was sentenced to death by the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919–1920.<ref>http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Affirmation.237/current_category.50/affirmation_detail.html</ref> |
| − | {{cquote |If we remain satisfied with the sort of local massacres which took place in [[Adana massacres|Adana and elsewhere in 1909]]...if this purge is not general and final, it will inevitably lead to problems. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to eliminate the Armenian people in its entirety, so there is no further Armenian on this earth and the very concept of Armenia is extinguished.}}
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| − | And continued by saying, "the procedure this time will be one of total annihilation-it is necessary that not even one single Armenian survive this annihilation".
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| − | During one of the secret meetings of the [[Young Turks]], Dr. Nazim was quoted as saying, "The massacre is necessary. All the non-Turkish elements, whatever nation they belong to, should be exterminated".<ref>{{cite book|last=G. Hovannisian|first=Richard|title=The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies|year=2011|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=1412835925|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CB4Bh0-zrgoC&pg|accessdate=16 February 2013|page=269|quote=During one of the secret meetings the Young Turkish ideologist Dr. Nazim said: "The massacre is necessary. All the non-Turkish elements, whatever nation they belong to, should be exterminated."}}</ref> | + | |
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| − | In February 1915, two months prior to the commencement of the Armenian genocide, Dr. Nazim declared a new government policy which would "produce total annihilation" in which would be "essential that no [[Armenians|Armenian]] survives".<ref name=Totten /> He has been noted to have said, that the Ottoman Empire should be "freeing the fatherland of the aspirations of this cursed race" when referring to the [[Armenians]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Payaslian|first=Simon|title=United States policy toward the Armenian question and the Armenian genocide|year=2005|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York [u.a.]|isbn=9781403970985|edition=[Online-Ausg.].|accessdate=16 February 2013|page=60|quote=Nuri Bey quoted Dr. Nazim as stating that the CUP had decided to shoulder the responsibility of "freeing the fatherland of the aspirations of this cursed race."}}</ref> | + | |
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| − | Due to his role in the [[Armenian genocide]], Dr. Nazim was sentenced to death by the [[Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919–1920]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Verdict ("Kararname") of the Turkish Military Tribunal|url=http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Affirmation.237/current_category.50/affirmation_detail.html|publisher=Published in theOfficial Gazetteof Turkey(Takvimi Vekayi),no. 3604 (supplement), July 22, 1919|accessdate=12 January 2013|coauthors=Translated into English by Haigazn Kazarian|language=Ottoman Turkish|quote="In accordance therefore with the above mentioned paragraphs in the law code, Talaat, Enver, Djemal and Dr. Nazim are sentenced to death"}}</ref> | + | |
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Dr. Nazim was a leading figure in the Turkification of the Ottoman empire. Many members of this organization eventually participated in the Turkish national movement and had played special roles in the Armenian Genocide.[2] In a speech delivered on during the closing remarks of a Committee of Union and Progress meeting, Dr. Nazim has said:[3][4] And continued by saying, "the procedure this time will be one of total annihilation-it is necessary that not even one single Armenian survive this annihilation".
During one of the secret meetings of the Young Turks, Dr. Nazim was quoted as saying, "The massacre is necessary. All the non-Turkish elements, whatever nation they belong to, should be exterminated".[5] In February 1915, two months prior to the commencement of the Armenian genocide, Dr. Nazim declared a new government policy which would "produce total annihilation" in which would be "essential that no Armenians survives". Due to his role in the Armenian genocide, Dr. Nazim was sentenced to death by the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919–1920.[6]
