>he was part of an organisation called the "young slavs" It was called Young Bosnia. The main motives were Yugoslavism (a kind of South Slav unification) and pan-Serbism (Serb nationalism over a larger state). The Young Turks genocided the Armenians out of fear that the Christian Armenians would side with the Russians if they invaded. The Young Turks viewed them as a fifth column of their Islamic empire. Why would the supposed Young Bosnians support genocide against Armenians?