Liberals love equating pre-modern empires like the Ottomans and Dynastic China with colonial extraction empires. Occupying land for the purposes of purely resource extraction was literally unthinkable to the Qing emperors for example, which is partially why they were so easily steamrolled and humiliated by the British and wholly why they can't be compared as if they were equally evil.
The main perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were liberal constitutionalists rather than loyalists to the Sultan though. They basically detested all of the sort of medieval institutions of the Ottomans.
Liberals love equating pre-modern empires like the Ottomans and Dynastic China with colonial extraction empires. Occupying land for the purposes of purely resource extraction was literally unthinkable to the Qing emperors for example, which is partially why they were so easily steamrolled and humiliated by the British and wholly why they can't be compared as if they were equally evil.
Ottoman empire isn't exactly pre-modern. The Armenian genocide happened during WWI.
The main perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were liberal constitutionalists rather than loyalists to the Sultan though. They basically detested all of the sort of medieval institutions of the Ottomans.
it was unthinkable for the europeans too, why do you think they brought missionaries and racial ideology to every corner they infested?