Armenian Genocide Thesis

The events that happened during the Armenian genocide was very disturbing as to why and how it happened. For the Armenians it was mainly the women and kids who were forced to be converted to islam. Another measure of the genocidal process is deleting all traces of the population who have been massacred or driven away by such deportations. Women were raped and sold in slave

The Turks conquered a lot of Armenia’s ancestral lands, which became part of the Ottoman Empire. Today the Ottoman Empire is known as Turkey. The Turks let the Armenians have some freedom in the lands that they had conquered from the Armenians until 1890. There were religious rebellions, and Muslims wanted their religion to stay in power, so the Ottoman Empire leaders came up with a plan to use the Armenians as people who are against their religion. This put the whole religious rebellion blame on the Armenians. The Turks killed Armenian villagers periodically in different areas in the conquered Armenian lands, because they did not like the fact that there were Christians in their country. After the Ottoman Empire lost its national strength the Young Turks, which was a nationalistic movement took over Turkey. The Young Turks murdered the Armenians in order to create inspiration towards the Islamic nationalism. This is when the Armenian Genocide had occurred in the 20th century, which resulted in 1,500,000 murders of Armenians. These people were not just simply murdered with a gun shot, they were raped, enslaved, suffered from hunger, hung, and even had their heads cut off. Yet still some nations like The United States of America has still not declared the killings of the 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as Genocide. To this day the Armenian race is still struggling to conquer back their ancestral lands, which

Preparation was an essential part of the Armenian genocide. The stage of genocide, Preparation, began by prioritizing

From 1915 to 1918, the Turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire carried out the killings of 1.5 million Armenians living there at the time. Over the course of those terrible 3 years, innocent people were murdered with death marches, execution, drowning, burning and other inhumane ways. Turkey has refused to take blame, and even denied the genocide’s existence and occurrence. There has been much dispute about whether or not countries outside of Armenia and Turkey should recognize these mass killings of Armenians in 1915-16 as a genocide or something else. The Ottoman Empire was multinational, but had always favored Muslims to Jews and Christians, so when World War I started and a substantial group of Christian Armenians were still in Turkey and

Even today, a counter history put in place inside of Turkey proves that not only do they know about the genocide but also that they are still trying to hide it. Turkish historians and authors work to minimize, relativize, and ultimately obscure the scale of the violence during the genocide. Multiple authors wrote saying that the Armenians were traitors and were alone responsible for their own fate and more importantly, all other minorities were just as much the targets as the Armenians were. One author wrote that the Armenians were indeed violators of treason and “simply had to be moved from the front-line areas; and that they themselves were responsible for numerous massacres” (11). “The struggle against official historiography will continue to prove impossible, so as it is anchored at the highest levels of the state, claims leading academic experts as its adherents, and remains a part of decades of tradition” (qtd. in Armenian Genocide 11). Turkey’s altered history and extreme aggression toward any author or historian that tried to tell the truth, makes any person question what they have to hide and why they won't allow the freedom of speech that people

The Armenian Genocide was carried out during World War 1 between the years nineteen fifteen and nineteen eighteen. It was planned and managed by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. The mass of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the mass was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were systematically massacred all over the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and terribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was confiscated. After a year of calm at the end of World War One, the slaughter was renewed between nineteen twenty and nineteen twenty three the turks organized massacres of Armenians in and as a result of Turkish atrocities more than one million of Armenians were slaughtered, died from cold, hunger and epidemics, hundreds of thousands Armenians were captivated, assimilated, deported by force from their native places (Armenocide.am). Today, most historians call this event genocide–“a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people.” The Armenian people were issued to deportation, seizure, persecution, massacre, and hunger. Ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or

Thee last couple of weeks we have been talking about genocide and the eight stages to identify it. We have also talked about three or four cases of genocide for example the Nazi genocide or the Rwandan genocide. And after looking over the stories and comparing them they all have many commonalties either in their planning or in the actions that they all took throughout the genocide. Some of these commonalties are the usage of propaganda as recruitment, the planning of the genocides, and finally hatred towards a certain race or religion.

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.

First, I’ll discuss why we must make a change on the acceptance of historical events throughout countries especially those, which caused great harm. Then we’ll talk about how to solve present genocides through education and recognition. And lastly, we will review how to fully acknowledge this mass killing as a historical event therefore we can prevent future genocides.

The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the organized killing of Armenians. While there is no clear agreement on how many Armenians lost their lives, there is general agreement among Western scholars that over a million Armenians may have perished between 1914 and 1918. It all happened during the Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey, where 2 million Armenians lived. The Armenian Genocide is the second-most studied massacre, after the Holocaust. To date Twenty-two countries have officially recognized what happened as genocide, but Turkey to this day rejects the events as genocide. One starts to wonder what could cause such hatred to commit such a heinous crime, and then go to great lengths to deny the fact that it

In the article "The concept of genocide" by Paul Boghossian, the author tries to understand how legitimate is the use of the term "genocide" in our daily language and how the concept that it is hidden may be imposed in the past and in the present-day realities. Today, the author of a statement must explain what the interpretation of the concept he knows and how he himself sees and interprets the situation. Although the author is Armenian, and the article itself contains a large number of references to the genocide of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians (who lived thousands of years in its place), we have difficulty understanding how he considers this crime as genocide or not. Since the proposed definition of genocide is not clear (can be read meaningfully) author's reflection are extremely interesting for understanding the essence of the genocide, and the possibilities of its determination and consolidation in the international legal field.

Throughout the course of the class, we have explored genocides from the perspective of perpetuators and studied the effects that their decisions had on their victims. Although all of these genocides may have different leaders and different causes, these genocides are all similar because they have manipulated people’s psyche, in order to accomplish their goal. Psychology, the study of how people act and the reasons behind them, states that the decisions that people make are influenced by the decisions that the people around make and by rewards that they receive from a certain decision.

The political leaders of Armenia were targeted during the genocide, the loss of the Armenian leaders left the population vulnerable and made the rebuilding of Armenian even more difficult. This planned out tactic proves that the Armenian genocide was purposeful and thought out.

Unfortunately, the Turkish-Armenian conflict is not the only unacknowledged or marginalized genocide; there are several other incidents of this happening, just in the past century. One of the most prominent being the Rwandan Genocide, which

Approximately one and a half million Armenians were killed from 1915-1923. The remaining part was either Islamized or exiled.” The Armenian Genocide was a horrific event that caused the Armenians to have a major loss in population. From this, the Armenians should have been given reparations, but were not and that still affects them to this day.