Armenian Genocide A Systematic Attack On The Armenian People Or A Means Of Sustaining The Ottoman Empire From Destruction

The Armenian Genocide was genocide in Armenia that last from April 24, 1915 until 1922. By the end of the genocide about 1.5 million Armenians were either deported or massacred in the Ottoman Empire. The methods of execution were varied and they were brutal also. Some of them include crucifixion, hanging, and marches. These marches would usually consist of those victims being forced to walk through the desert and they would usually die of starvation and dehydration. Officials would torment young children and tease them with food by eating it in front of them.

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire had slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians living within the same state.(Adalian) It is a tragedy; it is a genocide. People mustn’t forget the devastating events of the past; they must be heard and known. Genocides happen all the time and almost no one is aware, open your eyes people; innocent people are being slaughtered for things they cannot control such as the color of their skin, their ethnicity, the current economic or political status of their country. It is wrong and must stop! In this paper, the main focus is the Armenian Genocide, which ended in 1923.

By the Spring of 1915, The Ottoman Empire’s very existence was in danger. They faced a war on three fronts during World War One : Anglo-Indian troops to the South in the Levant, The Russians to east in the Caucasus, who were ahead after their victory in Sarıkamış, And the British and French to the West, who mounted naval attacks against the Dardanelles. It was clear that the Empire was in bad shape. With the situation so grave, the Ottomans began mobilizing their population for war, as well as doing away with those not loyal.They mobilized Kurds, Arabs, Turks, Bedouin Tribesman, and even used prisoners as irregulars. However, they didn’t mobilize Armenians as they declared them a dangerous group. To show insight into the reasons for the systematic killings and deportations of Armenians

The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the ottoman empire during wwI are called the Armenian genocide. genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. because of its scope, genocide requires central planning and a machinery to implement it. this makes genocide the quintessential state crime as only a government has the resources to carry out such a scheme of destruction. The Armenian genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the ottoman empire. it was carried out during W.W.I between the years 1915 and 1918. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction,

What is the Armenian Genocide? It is “the atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during W.W.I. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation,

The beginning of the Armenian Genocide was marked by the murder of the political leaders of Armenia. Leaders of the Armenian nationalist Dashnak party organization and Nazaret Chavush, the most notable Armenian leader in Zeitun were of the first Armenian leaders to be murdered, beginning in October 1914.

WAS GENOCIDE COMMITTED AGAINST THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING WORLD WAR I?

The Ottoman’s took power in the Armenian genocide through classification. All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” which shows the social differences between the majority and minority groups. This division occurs because of differences in ethnicity, race, religion, nationality, culture, or language and serves to drive the “us versus them” mentality needed to progress further along in the stages of genocide. Bipolar societies that lack mixed categories, are most likely to have a genocide, which is considered to be classification. The classification that happened during the Armenian genocide was that the Turks were Muslim and Armenians were Christians, Muslims dominated society and Armenians were viewed as “unfaithful” to Allah.

Known as the first genocide of the 20th century, the Ottoman Empire’s campaign against the Armenians between 1915 and 1918 continues to be a issue that follows Turkey as it positions itself on the international stage and attempts to gain a foothold in European politics. Having been content to forego addressing the claims of genocide and leave “history to the historians,” the modern Turkish state has learned in recent decades that simply forgetting the past is no longer an option. Movements both inside and outside Turkey in recent decades, specifically with the 50th and subsequent anniversaries of the beginning of the Armenian genocide, the creation of the Republic of Armenia following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and Turkey’s attempts

Bloxham, Donald. n.d. The great game of genocide : imperialism, nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. n.p.: n.d. Alexander Street Press, EBSCOhost (accessed March 25, 2017).

At the beginning of the fourth century Armenia transitioned from being an independent country, to a part of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians were Christian, unlike the Turks, who were Muslim. This led to unequal treatment of Armenians. For example, they had to pay higher taxes, yet had fewer political and legal rights. However, Armenians were very successful in the Ottoman Empire, which is another reason they were treated badly. They also were thought of as traitors because they might join the Russians in the war since they are also Christians. These were some of the reasons why the massacres began. Other reasons include the start of WW1 which allowed them to hide the massacres from the outside word, and made Turk suspicious of Armenians loyalty. Also the new government called the Young Turks saw the Armenians as a threat to the new state. The massacres that took place in the Ottoman Empire between 1914-1918 exhibited the ninth and tenth Stages of Genocide; Extermination and Denial. They also violated the human rights, Right to Equality and Freedom From Torture and Degrading Treatment.

As told by Robert Melson, the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide were motivated by nationalist ideology. (Melson, 1996) The victims within the Armenian Genocide were territorial ethnic groups

A large focus of the academic literature is an examination on how the Armenian genocide is contemporarily viewed and depicted, as it is engulfed in cultural bias. The widespread denial of the genocide in Turkey and among Turkish people indicates the high level of cultural bias that exists. The Turkish government denies that this was genocide, and it is a criminal offense in Turkey to discuss it. The denial of genocide is especially

The Armenian genocide is unfortunately regularly overlooked because of the Holocaust. This is due to the amount killed and the extreme amount of structure in the mass killing somehow gives it a lot more notoriety in western textbooks. There is also the fact that maybe it is underlooked because it's a less western/ eurocentric impact on history and the countries that were involved. Eugene Rogan in his book The Fall of the Ottomans writes an in depth chapter about the armenian genocide and its origins. It paints the picture that first the Ottomans were not ready for a world war of that scale. This is due to the fact that the empire is way to spread out and its people way to differentiated in ethnicity, religion, and allegiances. These differences led to animosity between the Majority muslim and the minority catholic groups, accusing them to be not loyal to the empire which gave them the public support and the reason to kill and push the minority Armenians out of Turkey. I will be talking about in detail about the Chapter relating to the armenian Genocide; its origins and its importance to the fall of the ottoman empire.

The Armenian Genocide was perhaps considered the first genocide that ever occurred in the 20th century in 1915, which was also around the time where WWI began. The Armenian Genocide was responsible for the deaths of between 664,000 to roughly 1.5 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire, caused by a political group called the Young Turks in an attempt to “Turkify” the Empire and kill off supposed Armenian traitors. But before the genocide began, Armenians were already in a fierce struggle with the Ottoman Empire trying to gain autonomy. The Ottoman population was mostly Muslim, and most of them resented the Armenians because they were not Muslims like them, but Christian. Many Muslims believed Armenians to be more educated and wealthier than them, despite Armenians having fewer rights and having to pay higher taxes. Most Armenians weren’t even rich, they were actually poor. But over time, the Muslims’ resentment grew over time, with each assumption of Armenians bringing them closer and closer to get rid of them. During an Armenian campaign that called for Armenians having civil rights, a Turkish sultan named Abdel Hamid II became frustrated by their ‘rebellious’ actions, and in 1890, he declared to give the Armenians “a box on the ear which will make them…relinquish their revolutionary ambitions” (Armenian Genocide). A series of massacres were committed against the Armenians soon after, and by 1896, 80,000 Armenians had been murdered by the Ottomans. Armenians lived