The Ottoman Empire and the Malet System

The Ottoman Empire had a perfectly functional system of having all of these cultures live together which was called the Malet system. A bunch of Protestant missionaries came in Mostly in the late 19th century and tried to start basically the equivalent of a color revolution except much more violent among the Armenians. During world war one for example there was a very active proposal in the west to to basically partition the Ottoman Empire upon victory Such as to construct a state of Armenia in Anatolia on the coast. And so essentially the dismemberment of the country in favor of these minorities You know with sort of western policy and that western policy Was not just a policy of hard power there. It was also a policy of