Criticisms and effects of the Committee of Union and Progress on World War I policies (1918-1922)

In this study, the accusations made against the practices of the Committee of Union and Progress and its members during World War I, in the period after the Armistice of Mudros signed on October 30, 1918, were tried to be analyzed by dermining the means and methods of the accusations. In some majör foreign propaganda Works published during World War I, the purpose for which genocide accusations were made against the society due to the deportation of Armanians was examined in the light of official Ottoman sources and relevant literature, and its role and share in the formation of anti-Unionist perpection in the public was examined. Again, the roles of lthe Unionist cadres in the Nationel Struggle, the relions of the National Struggle cadres with the Committee of Union and Progress, and their perspectives on the Unionists and Unionism were tried to be examined and the reasons why the leaders of this movement turned against the Unionists were tried to be revealed by criticizing their relations with the Society. This, it was analyzed how the anti-Union and Progress perception, which emerged as a result of the heavy defeat in World War I, was reflected in contemporary literature and to what extent it affected today's political discourses.