It was also Karabekir who crystallised the modern Turkish position on the controversial Armenian Genocide , telling Soviet peace commissioners that the return of any Armenians to territory controlled by Turks was out of the question , as the Armenians had perished in a rebellion of their own making . Historian Taner Akçam has identified four definitions of Turkey which have been handed down by the first Republican generation to modern Turks , of which the second is " Turkey is a society without ethnic minorities or cultures . " While the postwar reconstruction of eastern Europe was generally dominated by Wilsonian ideas of national self-determination , Turkey probably came closer than most of the new countries to ethnic homogeneity due to the subsequent population exchanges with neighbouring countries ( e.g. population exchange between Greece and Turkey )
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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