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The Armenian Massacre happened in 1894-1896 and the Armenian Genocide happened in 1915-1920 which was caused by the Turkish Government. The Turkish Government’s aim was to remove all the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire because they were more educated and wealthier then the Turkish population . The Turkish Government was also worried that the Armenians would become allies with Russia, who were a threat to Turkey . They killed and deported the Armenians to prevent this happening. It has been estimated

As provided by the first document, the Armenians were specifically targeted by the Turkish government, meaning that they were singled out as a ethnicity (Document 1). The document provides historical context as to what had happened inside the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and it shows that there was identification of the Armenians as people that should be exterminated. Similarly, the Turkish Minister restated the fact that the government had called for the end of all Armenians (Document 2). The minister’s point of view as a government official shows that the government was involved in the plan and was supportive of it. The photo in document 5 shows the large pile of dead bodies of Armenian people, presumably massacred by the government as shown by the neatness of the stacking (Document 5). Armin T. Wegner, the photographer, took this photo to prove that Armenians were being targeted, and to show what he has been seeing during his time in the Ottoman Empire. Because the Armenian people had been classified as a group that needed to be eradicated, the government had identified them, and completed the first part of the genocide process. The dehumanization of the Armenian people by stripping them of their belongings is reminiscent of the second step in the genocide process, expropriation. Before the war had taken place, there were 2200

The Young Turks sought to kill all Christian Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire, aiming to create an Armenian free country. Turkish leaders stated that “all Armenians must die; we will wipe them out and rid this Empire of them.” They referred to what would happen as a “Turkification campaign” and used World War one to hide what they were doing.

Before delving further there are proceeding events that must be examined, such as what was taking place concurrently during WWI. Arthur Bright from The Christian Science Monitor stated that according to the Turks the reason the Armenians were targeted was not intentional, “Ottoman Empire 's relocation policy wasn 't targeted at Armenians because of their ethnic identity - rather, the Ottomans were targeting insurgent groups within the Armenian community.” So much like the United states amidst WW2 when any Japanese persons were taking to camps during times of war. However, in this case as one begins to see what happened before and during, it becomes clear that it was a lot more than just a simple relocation.

Many contemporaries of that time said that they did not meet a single Armenian who would not know the Turkish language. It just shows how closely the Armenian people were tied to the Ottoman Empire.The Ottoman Empire never renounced the invention of the Great Turan - pan-Turkic state, which was to extend Turkish territories by occupying the Caucasus, North Caucasus, the Crimea, the Volga region, Central Asia up to the Altai and partly Mongolia. The Armenians had always prevented implementation of these plans; in addition, the Armenians had ties with the Russians. Therefore, it was one of the leading aspects to exterminate the Armenians. The plans for the extermination of the Armenian population were developed in October 1911 at a congress of the party "Union and Progress" ( "Ittihad ve Terakki") and took shape in the World War First. In September 1914, at a secret meeting chaired by the Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha was established the leaders of the Young Turks Nazim, Shakir Behaetdin and Sukru. Nazim claimed; “If we remain satisfied with the sort of local massacres which took place in Adana or elsewhere ...if this purge is not general and final, it will inevitably lead to problems. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to eliminate the Armenian people in its entirety, so there is no further Armenian on this earth and the very concept of Armenia is extinguished”.The same attitude had other participants in the

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 Ronald Reagan, once said, like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it, the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The ethic group the Ottoman Empire was deporting and killing were Christians. They were forced from their homes and into deportation and massacres from 1915 to 1918, one of the most brutal and traumatizing genocide that we have knowledge of. The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century, after World War 1. It occurred when two million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire. For three thousand years, an

The genocide began on April 24, 1915, when “300 Armenian political leaders, educators, writers, clergy and dignitaries in Istanbul were taken from their homes, briefly jailed and tortured, then hanged or shot” just for being a non-believer in the Muslim religion (UHRC, par. 19). After this, many Armenian men were being arrested for no real reason. They were then taken and shot or bayoneted by Turkish soldiers. Now, it was time for the Armenian women and children. These people were “ordered to pack a few belongings and be ready to leave home, under the pretext that they were being relocated to a non-military zone for their own safety when they were actually being taken on death marches heading south toward the Syrian Desert” (UHRC, par. 21). Over a million people took part in these “death marches” with almost ¾ of people dying while traveling through the desert.

The Armenian genocide is one of the most brutal genocides to occur in modern history and was set against the backdrop of World War I and the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Armenians populated the eastern provinces of the Ottoman domain for centuries, all while being treated with contention by the ruling Muslims due to their adherence to Christianity (Whittaker & Moreno-Riano, 2013). The gradual decline of the Ottoman Empire increased this contention, as the Turkish majority grew anxious over the precarious future of the Muslim dominated empire. When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, it only exacerbated the fear that Armenians were disloyal, and it became widely believed that they would assist the Russians in their fight against the Turkish. It is possible some Armenians perceived the Entente Powers as a lesser evil than the Turks, but unlikely that it was a

They thought that Turkey should be a Muslim country, they thought people of any other religion were “infidels”, and shouldn’t be considered Turkish. Again, as most genocides start, they started by boycotting establishments being ran by anyone who wasn’t Muslim, and stripping them of their civil liberties. After dehumanizing them, they started the systematic slaughtering of the Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians. They used many methods to try and exterminate these “infidels” such as, parboiling, mass drowning, death marches, and forced labor until death. These methods are some of the more tame. When the Pontic Greeks, after witnessing what had happened to the armenians before them, knew what was coming. The men escaped to the mountains, the mercenaries that were enlisted to kill them then went after the women and children that stayed within the village. A common form of killing was to bring them to a nearby cave, seal them inside, and either burn them alive or use gas to suffocate them inside. Any of the men who were caught, were thrown, still alive into the furnaces of the ships that the mercenaries were using to travel. As i mentioned before, all crosses on churches were replaced with cresents, that’s not all they did to their churches though. The churches became yet another way to kill off the “infidels”, they stuffed as many greeks inside as they

The Armenian Genocide started in April of 1915 and extended on for three years, ending when the Ottoman Empire surrendered in 1918. This was the first genocide of the twentieth century. During World War I when they saw a decline in the Ottoman Empire authority and witness the military loses increase. They blamed the Armenian people for these problems (used them as scapegoats”) and the genocide had started (EDB UTEXAS).

Turkey’s involvement in the World War 1 provided cover for extreme elements of the very nationalistic Young Turks regime to carry out the genocide. The genocide started in 1915, culminated in 1917 and was characterized by mass deportation, slaughter, starvation and raped. Those Armenians who were conscripted in the Turkish army were executed and this was explained as a natural occurrence of war. Pasha was the Leader and chief executor in the mass execution.

Although genocide has been occurring for the last couple of decades, many people don’t know about it. Genocide is the deliberate killing of large amount of people or groups, especially in a particular ethnic group or nation. Many people disappeared, don’t come back, or their family don’t know what happened to them. Genocide has been occurring since 1945 probably even earlier. Genocide has occurred over than 75 different countries. Although there are 26 that are the major ones and the ones with the most people since the Holocaust. Some of the countries that it has occurred are in; Rwanda, Rouge Cambodia, and Darfur.

In the ottoman empire there was robbery, beating, kidnapping and murder of Armenians at the hands of the ottoman Turkish soldiers. The government wanted to eliminate the empire's Christian population, which included the Armenians. This disturb United States ambassador Henry Morgenthau.

Gandhi once said that no outside influence trying to help stabilize a country could be successful unless the different factions within the country learn to put aside their differences for the benefit of it all. This was a major point in the unification of India. Today it is just as valid. An example is Iraq. They are more interested in putting down those who have differing belief than a stable country. Until they start agreeing on reform no outside part, like the USA, will be able to accomplish much in trying to help settle their differences, this includes genocide. So, what is genocide? Genocide is the intentional, collective destruction of an entire human group based on national, racial, religious, or ethnic identity. There are 3 main reasons why we cannot stop genocide: we cannot change people’s way of