The Armenian Genocide In The 19th Century

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

Between the years of 1915 and 1918 the Ottoman Empire, under the Young Turks began a deliberate program of removing and exterminating the Armenian population; a population already dismantled through previous massacres. The Armenians were a minority in both population and religion. Because most Armenians were Christians, they were made an easy scapegoat in an empire that was mostly Islamic. With the world’s eyes on the First World War, the Armenian Genocide went mostly unnoticed and there were no punishments such as ones received by Germany after the Holocaust. The United States has deliberately avoided the recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in order to maintain an ally in the Middle East and to avoid American genocidal policies,

During World War I, the government of Turkey sought to rid their country of the Armenians. The Turks and other ethnic groups hated the Armenians for their ability to prosper, even as a minority group with limited rights. This hatred led to the desire to cleanse the Ottoman Empire of Armenian influence. The Turkish people say that the Ottoman empire went through a civil war during this time, which explains the deaths of so many Armenians. Although the Turks claim otherwise, the treatment of the Armenian people during World War I qualifies as a genocide through scale, government involvement, and the usage of the genocide process.

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

Since a hundred years ago, the discussion over the barbarous actions of the Ottoman Empire murdering and deporting of its Armenian community has come down to one question. Was the viscous acts of the Ottoman Empire considered Genocide or not? This is the real global issue that has been debated for so long throughout the world. While the vast American-Armenian community truly believes the word Genocide should be openly used to describe the massacre that took place a hundred years ago, the United States has not let the word out of their mouth. Many Armenians wonder why the United States choose not to express the G-Word when they know more than a million Armenians were massacred during the final days of the Ottoman Empire.

The Armenian Republic was crying for help from the allied forces, which included Great Britain, France, and Soviet Union, but the forces did little to help them. The one thing the forces did was give a warning to Turkey saying “the Allied governments announce publicly that they will hold all the members of the Ottoman Government, as well as such of their agents as are implicated, personally responsible for such matters” (The Armenian Genocide). The warning had no effect. The Armenians were left for dead. So one of the first genocides in history was in full effect. Although there is many examples to prove the Armenian Genocide actually happened, “Turkish government has denied

They were treated as second class citizens due to the lack of religious tolerance displayed by the Ottomans. According to Dictionary.com genocide is “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial,political, or cultural group” (np). The Genocide started on April 24, 1915 with the rounding up and execution of over two hundred influential Armenians while leaving their cruelly mutilated bodies in public squares. From this point on Death Marches and raids on churches became the status quo for the Armenian people. Under the guise of deportation out of the war zones affected by the great war, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcefully removed from their homes and brought to death camps. All the able men were inducted into the Ottoman army only to be killed soon after they had done labor for the army.

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

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.

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.

At first the Armenians were hopeful that their more modern government would help their region and give them equal rights. However, shortly after they came to power, the Young Turks made it clear that their numbers one priority was to “Turkify” all of the empire. On April 15, 1915, the genocide truly began. The government first arrested and murdered several hundred Armenian intellectuals. Secondly, they went into regular Armenians’ houses and grabbed them from their homes and took them on death marches in the scorching heat of the Mesopotamian desert until they dropped dead with no food, no water, no clothes. If you stopped to rest you would be shot. On top of these death marches, there were special organizations called “killing squads” that went around drowning, stabbing, and burning Armenians. In 1922 as the genocide began to end, “there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire” (“The Armenian Genocide”). So in the end, the Armenian Genocide is one of the many Genocides that have happened and are happening currently that we are not educated on. If this particular genocide is either forgotten or unspoken, it really is a little bit of

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

In 1915, the Ottoman Turks committed the first modern day genocide against the Armenian population. This mass extermination of the Armenians, which was only deemed a genocide in later years, resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million people. This was the first time genocide took place in the modern era, showing to be the direct result of a stated ideology in which the deliberate annihilation of an entire people was both affirmed as a policy goal and carried through by the forces of the state acting in unison. This governmental system-wide extermination consisted of massive and repeated deportations, rape, kidnapping, mutilation, outright killing, death from exposure, starvation, and thirst.

This article takes a look at the Turkish-Armenian problematic relationship stemming from the Armenian Genocide conflict over the recognition of the genocide. The Turkish government refusal of calling the mass killings genocide has caused other countries like the United States on forcing Turkey to recognize the genocide. The amount of writings on the subject is very limited in Turkey and not often talked about.