The Armenian Genocide

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

There were many reasons that could be tied to why the Armenian Genocide happened, but there is no reason bigger than the fact that the Turkish Government was unsatisfied with the religious state of the Armenians. The Armenians had established their national religion as Christianity unlike Turkey who was mostly Muslim. The main group that enforced this was called the Young Turks. The Young Turks were a group that had taken control of Turkey. According to the United Human Rights Council, “[The Turkish Government] exploited the religious, cultural, economic and political differences between Turks and Armenians so that the average Turk came to regard Armenians as strangers among them.” It started with the Armenians

The Turkish government refuses to allow other allied countries and those within NATO to address this event as a genocide. This act is to purely save face. It does not allow the families who have already lost so much due to the slaughtering of their families to heal. One hundred years has gone by and the evidence to support the fact that the Armenian genocide did indeed happen and past the extent that the Turkish government allows to be known. The government has done everything from silencing the media to forging records from the times of the Genocide to paint the government in a better light and not cause any unwanted backlash from the people or from allied governments. The continuation of the denial of the magnitude of the situation is only serving to reflect poorly on the Turkish government as a whole. Flat-out denial to acknowledge these actions caused by the government in the past is only making the families affected by the genocide against their ancestors want to make right to this injustice. The Armenian Genocide ended with the Ottoman surrender in 1922 to conclude their role in WW1. This caused the Turks to flee to Germany where it was promised that they would not be prosecuted for their actions. The genocide started with well over two million Armenians living within the Ottoman empire's borders but ended

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

Most know about the horrific and shameful acts of violence against the Jewish during World War II. It is taught and studied in world history classes within every country. However, many have not heard of the Armenian Genocide. It is still a debated and controversial topic. Against what all documents and witnesses who have survived show and tell, the Turkish government still denies the existence of this terrible event. This act of ignorance is highly irresponsible and insulting towards the survivors of this horrible event. By accepting the existence of such shameful act, the new Republic of Turkey can move forward and fix their foreign affairs with opposite parties.

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.

This was a very tragic event in history especially for the Armenians. The Armenians were innocent group of people. More than half of the population were killed. Most Armenians today want acknowledgement for the horrible things the Turks did, but Turkey still denies it and even uses reasons such as it was during the first World War. Despite what the Turks say, a lot of the older Armenian survivors are still alive and telling people what horror they saw. I feel that if the United States and other major countries of the world accept that the atrocities were done on the Armenians, this matter would be put under a microscope and reviewed carefully. But until that day that it is agreed upon that the genocide happened, which it did, the Armenians will keep bringing it up year after year in the month of April during the Armenian genocide’s

This source is a magazine article from History Today that I found on the database MasterFILE Premier. One hundred years ago the Armenian genocide occurred in Turkey. In his account of the complex historical background to these events Donald Bloxham focuses on the issue of great power involvement. Approximately one million Armenian Christians were murdered in 1915-16 under the auspices of the Ottoman state, directed by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). Evidence for this state-sponsored mass destruction is too strong to waste any space demonstrating why the controversial 'G' word, genocide, is entirely applicable to the case. Yet, contrary to an 'Armenian' historiography that is keen -- partly as a response to ongoing Turkish

The Armenian genocide is a huge part of history that is often looked over. The genocide still occurred even if the Turkish wont admit to the facts. They claim they had no intent on the killings; which by definition makes it not a genocide. The Armenians faced human right deprival and death by the Ottomans and their suffering should be recognized. The denial of the human rights impacted the international community because it leads to many Armenians migrating to live elsewhere. Some Armenians today can now be found in Turkey, but many are found in the Republic and other

The main crime of any genocide is the nature ethnic violence and with the Armenian genocide, in particular, the main themes were the “conditions of niche overlap”, or, in other words, the antagonism between the nations for the place in the society (Astorian, 2011). The conflict erupted in two main regions: Eastern Anatolia and Cilicia both with imposing Armenian populations. Tensions began with the clash for the ownership of the land, first with unarmed peasants facing annexation, repression and violence as well as in the case of Cilicia, when non-Muslim populous was allowed to purchase land, with wealthy Armenians promoting their own trade and building of Christian churches, bringing religious tensions into the equation. With the emergence of Young Turks in power, Armenian national parties became hopeful of a new generation of democratization and liberation from the oppressive rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II. The mere existence of such parties, who in effect had a very strong role in the political organization of the Ottoman Empire, suggests that there could be a different resolution to the so-called “Armenian Question”. Britain and Russia provided support for the Armenian population, pressuring the government to enforce reforms that would enable Armenians to form their autonomous

Since then, Turkish government has started to deny the truth about the Armenian Genocide. They denied that genocide took place. Even though there are many evidences that proves that did take place in 1915, they still deny it and don’t accept the truth. Some of the evidence is photographic evidence, eyewitness accounts, testimony of survivors and etc. Armenians still argue about this situation because they have a right to get their land back. Turkish people say that it never happened and that they are not responsible for it. For example, in the 1930s, Turks

Armenians are a Christian nation, and when they were a country, they were the first to proclaim Christianity as the state religion. The Ottoman Empire took control of Armenia during the 15th century, and they were mistreated for quite a while due to religious differences (Christians vs. Muslims), and this mistreatment culminated and peaked during 1915-1918. During World War I, the Ottoman Empire took the opportunity among a world of chaos to exterminate its Christian population, after years of hate propaganda sponsored by the government, they struck, and the Ottoman Empire’s successor denies it to this day.

The thesis I am working with is: the Armenian Genocide is closely linked to the national identity of Turkey and the Armenian diaspora found around the world, because of this Turkey will never acknowledge that they committed a genocide without immense international pressure. Some of the questions I will be hoping to answer are the following. Is the Armenian Genocide a fundamental part in the creation of Turkey? How linked is this event to the national identities of the Turkish and Armenian people? Do the people of Turkey really believe that these events were not a genocide or is that something just being pushed by their government? Has there been a cover-up to deny these events as being defined as a genocide? Does the close proximity

All in all, the Armenian genocide that was the first genocide in the human history of all times , is still unrecognized. Armenia and Armenian diaspora demand Turkish government to recognize the crime that had been done by their anccentores at the beginning of the 20th century. And they call all nations in the world be aware of this kind of crime. It should not be repeated again.

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, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre, and starvation. The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were methodically massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and horribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was expropriated. After only a little more than a year of calm at the end of W.W.I, the atrocities were renewed between 1920 and 1923, and the remaining Armenians were subjected to further massacres and expulsions. In 1915, thirty-three years before UN Genocide Convention was adopted, the Armenian Genocide was condemned by the international community as a crime against humanity.”