The Rise Of 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

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.

The Armenian Genocide also referred as the Armenian Holocaust was a horrific act done by the Turkish Ottoman government to exterminate and kill many Armenians. Millions of Armenians lost their lives due to this event and Turkey refutes that any event ever happened or occurred. The start of the genocide took place in April 24 1915 where the ottoman empire took many Armenian leaders to eventually murder them. The event was carried out during and after World War 1. The genocide was implemented in two phases which where the wholesale killing of the male population, then the death marches of the children and women leading to starvation because their food and water were deprived as well as their dignity since they raped and robbed them. There were

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

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

The Armenian people under the Ottoman Empire have gone through persecution by their government on more than one occasion. While the Armenian Genocide is still not acknowledged by present-day Turkey, the motivations behind the deaths are questionable. The persecution of a whole people is racist, but other motivations may have been a stronger influence. Previous acts against the Armenian people were meant to sabotage the growing sense of Armenian nationalism by intimidating the Armenian people with severe consequences for disputes. The massacres of 1894 to 1896, carried out under the control of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, witnessed the killing of Armenian people in broad daylight in front of the general public. The public killings were meant to send

    This horrific event started in 1915 taking place in the country of  Turkey (Krajeski).The Caucasus region of Eurasia is where most of the Armenians existence made their stay (“Genocide”).Over the years the Ottoman Empire took over and permitted any religion except for their own Muslim worshipings (“Genocide”).Throughout the years the Armenians thrived and had plenty of success under the Ottoman rule that soon the Turkish citizens started to envy the victims (“Genocide”).The Turkish citizens are to blame for this catastrophic event.They seized the Armenians because they believed they were the cause of their collapsing empire (Krajeski). “Armenian civil leaders, intellectuals, doctors, businessmen, and artists were rounded up and killed” (Cohan). “Armenian villages were raided frequently by bands of Turks and Kurds ,other ethnic groups in the region. Sultan Hamid the ruler of the Ottomans ordered a series of massacres from 1894 to 1896 killing between 100000 - 300000” (Friedman 13).Sadly the amount of deaths recorded was over 1.5 million Armenians (Krajeski).

In the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish government put into motion a plan to murder and massacre several Armenians that lived in the Ottoman Empire. One of the main reason the genocide began was because the Armenians were asking for more equal rights. The Armenian Genocide was not necessary.At the time of the massacre.there were about 2 million Armenian’s in the Ottoman empire. By the time the massacre ended, there were about 1.5 million Armenians dead, many were also removed from the country. The Armenians were discriminated by the Ottoman, many Armenians began to ask for equal rights because of the tend toward constitutional governments in Europe. There was a decline of power in the ottoman empire and major military losses during WWI, which

Turkish leaders in 1915, had planned to kill and massacres Armenians that were currently living in the Ottoman empire. Bloxham states, “However discriminatory were traditional Ottoman attitudes towards Armenians in a Muslim-dominated theocracy, and however miserable the life of the average Ottoman Armenians peasant, it was only after the Armenian question was promoted to the internal diplomatic table during the ‘eastern crisis’ of 1875-8 that it became such a toxic matter for successive Ottoman regimes as to be answered with periodic bouts of murder” (Bloxham 4). Currently, some historians call this even a genocide-a premeditated and systematic campaign to kill a good amount of population. Aside from the pressure from Armenians and social justice advocates throughout the globe, it is still illegal in Turkey to speak or make any comment on what had happened to the Armenians during this

It started off deporting these innocent people or forcing them to convert to Islam (1915 Genocide-Frequently Asked Questions). Then it took a horrifying twist as people were forced to strip naked and walk into the desert until they fell over dead (History.com Staff, 2010). If they stopped to take a break, they were shot (1915 Genocide-Frequently Asked Questions). Armenian/Arminianist children were taken from their families and brought to Muslim homes (History.com Staff, 2010). Armenian/Arminianist women were raped and given off to Muslim men (History.com Staff, 2010). Nearly ten years later, in 1922, the genocide ended, leaving only 388,000 Armenians and Arminianists alive, most of them women and children (1915 Genocide-Frequently Asked

Commencing in April of 1915, the Ottoman government systematically initiated the slaughter of the empires Armenian civilian population. Often referred by historians as the first genocide to occur in the twentieth century, the Armenian Genocide refers to the persecution of the Armenian people, with estimates believing there to have been anywhere between six hundred thousand to a million and a half dead by the time the genocide concluded in early 1923. The deaths of the Armenian people were carried out in an arguable attempt by the Ottoman government to create what would be

The Armenian Genocide, what many call the first genocide of modern times, occurred during World War I when many Armenians were deported from their homes in Anatolia, Turkey. The Turkish government assumed that the Armenians were sympathetic to Russia, who the Turks were at war. This mass deportation resulted in the deaths of about 600,000 to 1 million Armenians.

Far from being repentant of the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, is again, like its Ottoman forbear, targeting Armenians; is again causing their death and dislocation.

The main goal of these reforms was to move the non-Muslims from an inferior national to a full subject of the Empire. The thought was that if the Sultan gave his minority subjects more rights, per say, than they would not form a separatist movement. Or worse the subjects separatist movement lobby international support; for example, in the Greek national movement in 1821. The Greeks were assisted by France, Romanov Russia, and The United Kingdom. In this way two causes for the Armenian genocide interweave. At the same time as nationalistic centrifugal forces are pulling the Empire apart, Europe is sticking their hands in Ottoman internal affairs. The Tanzimat Reforms were really a failure, and did not promote equal citizenship among citizens. Nor

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.