Taking a Look at Armenian Genocide

Till this day, Turkey refuses to call this occurrence a genocide, speaking of the Armenian genocide is an offense punishable by imprisonment. In 2010, Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to deport 170,000 Armenians when a bill was proposed to recognize the Armenian genocide in Turkey.

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

On the positive side, this brought about international attention to the crisis at hand. On the negative side, that attention did not amount to any actual reform in the Ottoman Empire on the behalf of the Armenian people. There is also the matter in which American activists worded the problem that has caused the Armenian people to struggle with self-identity in the United States; I will talk more about this later in this paper. To gather aid for the Armenian cause the ABCFM sat down and devised a plan on how to present the Armenian people in the United States. What came about was that the United States had a duty to intervene in order to save the Christian Armenians because of familiar religious ties. Somehow the Armenians were “unique in the world for their long-standing devotion

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On the 24 April 1915, as the Ottoman Empire was being dismantled, a fiercely nationalistic Muslim political party known as the Young Turks began the process of exterminating approximately 1 500 000 Armenian Christians. The Young Turks aimed to create a state that was free from any Armenians and from Christians in particular. The genocide lasted 8 years, until 1923, during which time the Armenian Christian population in the Ottoman Empire was reduced from approximately 2 million to approximately 500 000. Still today, Turkey refuses to call what took place ‘genocide’. The modern Turkish government argues that the intent was to relocate the Armenians or, in some cases, that the genocide was completely fabricated by the Armenians, as a bid to gain support from the outside Christian world.

Mass extermination and deportation of Western population of Armenia, Cilicia and other provinces of the Ottoman Empire carried out by the ruling circles of Turkey in 1915-1923. The policy of genocide against Armenians was due to several factors. The leading role among them was the ideology

In 1915 the Turkish government started a crusade against Christian Armenians. It included horrific massacres that were started by Abdul-Hamid II who thought the Armenians wanted a revolution, so he had 300,000 Armenians killed. The result of this was friction between the Muslim and Christian community (Gale 2012). “The Turkish leadership blamed the Armenians as a liability that was weakening the empire. They quickly began stripping away Armenian rights, disarming Armenian military personnel, and forcing them to serve in labor divisions” (Gale 2016). The quote above shows that this is the quintessence of a witch hunt against Armenians.

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.

If they weren't sent on death marches the turks would tortured the innocent Armenians in any other way imaginable. According to an article written by CNN it is reported that the victims were killed by “mass burnings. drowning, torture, gas, poison, disease and starvation. Children were reported to have been loaded into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard. Rape, too, was frequently reported” (Melvin). But that wasn't the only way there are also pictures of Ottoman soldiers posing with severed heads and according to a website called armenian-genocide.org much of the armenian population was sent to the syrian desert to die of thirst and hunger (Melvin). The young turks wanted any trace of the armenians demolished.

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

Knar Yemenidjian and Aleksan Markaryan both escaped the Armenian Genocide in 1915, with Knar eventually immigrating to Canada and Aleksan to America. Both passed away in January of this year, just four days apart. With their passing, there are no longer any Armenian Genocide survivors in North America and only a handful left in the world. 102 years after the start of what would become the first genocide of the 20th century, the issues of denial and recognition persist. Knar had to wait until 2004, 37 years after she first arrived in Canada, to see her adoptive country recognize the genocide. In 29 years of living in the United States, Aleksan never got that satisfaction, a travesty every Armenian Genocide survivor to set foot in the land of

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).

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

From April 24, 1915 to 1922, one of the most horrific tragedies in world history took place. The Armenian Genocide was a catastrophic event that was caused by the intolerance of Armenians by the Turkish government. From 1514 to 1918 the majority of Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire under a treaty which allowed the to continue practicing their religion even though the Ottoman Empire was mostly muslim. For many years the Armenians flourished in the Ottoman Empire, but due to their tendency of being better educated and wealthier than the Turks, speculation grew that the Armenians would be more loyal to Christian governments, such as the Russians. This speculation turned into a profound hatred, as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart and Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s bigotry towards the “unloyal” Armenians caused the Turkish government to set out on a mission to exterminate all the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.

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.