On the sixth of May every year, the Syrians and the Lebanese commemorate the memory of more than 20 Arab intellectuals who were killed by the Ottomans, on charges of planning an Arab revolution against the Turkish occupier during World War I, while the neo-Ottomans, led by the Justice and Development Party, re-commit crimes and massacres against the peoples of the region years later. Many of the massacres of their ancestors the Ottomans.