The fourth session , convened that same evening , heard a series of speakers , including the reading of a substantial written statement by the controversial Enver Pasha of Turkey . Enver , a nationalist who came to power in 1908 , and who was one of those primarily responsible for the 1915 Armenian Genocide , was a highly divisive figure among the delegates , many of whom hailed from Armenia and others who held Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , Enver 's sworn enemy , in high regard . With the sympathetic support of Kemal seen as important to Soviet foreign policy , a compromise had been brokered providing for the reading of Kemal 's statement without his physical presence in the hall — a decision which took the edge off of the inevitable anger and hubbub on the floor when it was read
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Congress of the Peoples of the East