The five years between 1918-1923 is called Armistice Period in the history of Turkey, marking a liminal historical period, neither a part of the Ottoman Empire, nor, the beginning of the new Turkish Republic. In this study, what I am going to do is to explore the altering perceptions of Ahmed Emin (Yalman), who was a modernist journalist, over the non-Muslim minorities, namely, Jews, Armenians and Ottoman Greeks. As an intellectual receiving his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1914, and who promotes the liberal and idealist views emanating from the U.S. and especially Woodrow Wilson, Ahmed Emin is an important figure in the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republic period. In this paper, by close reading his editorials, which are more than seven hundreds, I will be trying to figure out his perception of non-Muslims as one of the most liberal-minded intellectual. Moreover, although he came from such an atmosphere of freedom and liberties, I will demonstrate that how he could be offensive against them, especially, Ottoman Greeks. Apart from these, this study will show the remarkable parallelism between the political events taking place in the region and the perceptions in the mind of an intellectual; as, both, an object of these incidents, and a subject of them being an actor in the scene, reporting and commenting the daily events. Consequently, the primal function of this study will be unpacking the chaotic mind of the late Ottoman intellectuals, which is the fundamental characteristic of this historical period, by exploring a great number of editorials, books and articles written by a modernist Ottoman intellectual. Furthermore, it will help understand the intellectual transformation in the subsequent years within a secular republic.