In his treatise " The Young Turks before the law court of history " , Kirakosyan set out to uncover the political essence of the Young Turks and the hollowness of their slogan " liberty , equality and justice " , and to reveal the historical truths about the tragedy that befell the Armenians in Turkey , whose murder and deportation in 1915 provoked the censure of the world . Through a comparative analysis of an enormous quantity of multilingual and diverse sources and a thorough study of newly unearthed sources , Kirakosyan showed how contemporary Turkish historians were acting as attorneys covering up the monstrous crimes of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II and the Young Turks . He also put forth his belief that the genocidal campaign against the Armenians was aimed not only at their physical destruction but was directed against Russia as well , the country which was the main obstacle on the way to realizing the goals of pan-Turkism . The apex of the Young Turks ' many atrocities was the extirpation during World War I of more than a million Armenians , a crime against humanity that would come to be known as the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
John Kirakosyan