Armenian Genocide Report

The Armenian Genocide is the name given to the events of 1915-1923 in the Ottoman Empire, which was renamed Turkey after its founding father, Mustafa Ataturk. The Muslim majority destroyed the Armenians' homes, churches, and livelihoods in a continuous murderous event that took its course over 8 years. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million Armenians died in this Genocide, and other ethnicities died as well including Greeks and Azerbaijanis who happened to be living in Armenian neighborhoods. (University of Michigan) The victims were sometimes forced to walk on endless marches that were intended to move the entire population out of the country and east to the mountains. Any Armenians who died on the march were left on the road to rot. The Armenian Genocide was first recognized by the Russian Empire in 1915, who saw what was happening before Europe did. The leaders of the Ottoman Empire, including Ataturk, were creating a modern Turkey for Turks, at the expense of all the minorities of the Ottoman Empire, and without mercy for any who would resist.

The Armenian Genocide tore many families apart forever and only the lucky ones were able to survive the wrath of the Turkish government. The legacy of Mariam Baghdishian is a story of troubled childhood, death, and perseverance. It all started in 1914 when her father was abducted into the Turkish Army and her

The war between the Young Turks and the Armenians did not solve any problems, but rather just further deepened tensions between countries. It started off as a war for power because the Armenians demanded equal rights with the Turks in the government of the Ottoman Empire. However, due to the differing religions between the two groups, the Armenians were denied of their request as they were the minority. This lead the Turks to form a committee, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), to reach a compromise with the Armenians so they could all live together in peace. However, out of fear that they would take over, the Young Turks completely disregarded this plan and decided to slaughter them by the thousands because they posed a slight threat. This increased tensions between opposing races and opposing countries since their Allies, such as Germany, would also be expected to take the side of the Turks and deny the brutality of the events that took place.

Roughly 1 and a half million people died in the Armenian Genocide. This happened during World War I in the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish government was attempting to have ethnic exclusivity. During these atrocities, the Armenians demonstrated true strength in their resistance to the Turks.The Armenians did not fight back immediately, which was a mistake.

They claim that the Armenians were taken for protection from the war that was going to happen. The Leaders of the murders were found guilty. This genocide is highly controversial because not too many of people admit to what happened. To this present day, it is against the law in Turkey to talk about the events that happened in the Armenian Genocide.

In 1915, officials of the Turkish government commenced an ambition to eradicate the Armenian people residing in the Ottoman Empire. Ultimately, the genocide slaughtered approximately 1.5 million of the 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time and displaced hundreds of thousands more upon its end. To date, the atrocities staining the Turkish deserts have still not been recognized at the international level.

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.

The Young Turks came up with different plans and organizations to remove the Armenian most influential leaders. They captured them and sent them on death marches without any food or water until they dropped dead, whoever stopped would be killed instantly. Some of the names of these organizations were “killing squads” and they would drown people, burn them alive or threw them off cliffs. The Young Turks also kidnapped Armenian children, converted them into Islam, and gave them a new Turkish family. The genocide finished in 1922, with only 388,000 Armenians left in the Ottoman

So, I did not find any sources or information that went against any of my beliefs. Despite some people calling it the “Armenian Massacre” as opposed to the “Armenian Genocide”, the point still stood that many innocent people were brutally murdered by the Turkish government. All the information found during the research led me to one truth, this is important history that at the very least every high-school student should know. I tried to incorporate different sources with different backgrounds and convictions. This is to ensure that the potential research paper is filled with as much clear and unbiased information as possible.

The Armenian Genocide, what many call the first genocide of modern times, occurred during World War I when many Armenians were deported from their homes in Anatolia, Turkey. The Turkish government assumed that the Armenians were sympathetic to Russia, who the Turks were at war. This mass deportation resulted in the deaths of about 600,000 to 1 million Armenians.

Far from being repentant of the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, is again, like its Ottoman forbear, targeting Armenians; is again causing their death and dislocation.

These planned killings left the Armenian’s vulnerable, and without procedure while under the extreme pressure under threat of the genocide. Following the murder of

The Armenian genocide has several main causes: European meddling in Ottoman internal affairs, nationalism, economic jealousy, and Armenian involvement in the Russian war effort. Though, a lot of the causes are interrelated. For example, nationalism and European meddling go hand in hand. What exactly was the Armenian genocide? Well, the Armenian genocide was a state orchestrated machine of mass-murder and rape of the Armenian people, and several other ethnic groups, of the Ottoman Empire 1915-1923. The Armenians were one of many ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire, and they had lived in eastern Asia Minor for around three thousand years prior to the atrocity .

I will begin with The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History written in 2011 by Raymond Kevorkian. Kevorkian is a French-Armenian Professor who works as a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII. This book is one of the first to make full use of the archives at the Nubarian Library in Paris. This is a library dedicated to Armenian History and I will be using this book bibliography to find important primary sources. In his book, Kevorkian talks about the relationship between the Young Turks and the Armenians leading up to and during the genocide. This will be important for me to look at to see the evolution of each group's national identity in relation to the other. Another source I am excited to be working with is Consequences of Denial:

to elaborate the same. The above case serves as the first type of case study mentioned before and for the Armenian genocide and the horrific Holocaust will serve as the second type. For a more accurate comparison an ICC case dealing with genocide should have been taken but, the only genocide case is that of Darfur, Sudan i.e. The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir which because of the suspect being at large has led the case to be stuck at the Pre-Trail procedure.