Pan-Turkism is often perceived as a new form of Turkish imperial ambition . Some view the Young Turk leaders who saw pan-Turkist ideology as a way to reclaim the prestige of the Ottoman Empire as racist and chauvinistic . Some scholars believe that pan-Turkism guided ethnic cleansing , such as the Armenian , Greek , and Assyrian genocides . The agents of the Armenian genocide during the First World War advocated pan-Turkism , and Enver Pasha was a key player in the attempt to remove non-Muslim minorities from the Ottoman Empire in order to build a new pan-Turkic state
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