The Turkish government arguing the validity of the history has been under discussion as far as the genocide. As they argue history is subjective therefore, it is not a fact that the genocide ever happened. They’ve asserted that the genocide is some idea brought about by historians that have tried to sensationalize things so they can make a name for themselves. According to Theriault there is a “Turkish” and an “Armenian” view of the history and each are extreme with either of them being more valid than the other. Theriault goes on to talk about the “Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Committee (TARC) and how it was an “ill-fated initiative” based on the idea that resolution of the tension between Armenians and Turks could be accomplished through a negotiated settlement of the various issues each side perceived as important, including the history of 1915.” These tactics were used so that the Turkish government would seem like they were trying to aid in the Armenian cause, although, nothing had come of this “show” for the public audience. Scholars that deny the genocide claim Armenians are “victims” resulting in a negative relationship with the Turks today. This claim by denial scholars perpetuates the Anti-Armenian sentiment shared by the leadership of Turkey and enables the domination relationship they have with Armenians.
When the French National Assembly declared it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians, Turkish leaders and their supporters began a new form of
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
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 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
As I continue in 1914 Turks join the world War 1 on the side of Germany and the Hungarian Empire, during this time a war was declared by the Ottoman Religious making a holy war against all Christians. Military leaders began to say that they were traitors. the Turkish government arrested and executed several hundred Armenian intellectuals “ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water.” ( History.com, 2010) And even sometimes stripped naked and forced to walk in the scorching sun until they dropped dead and those who gave up along the march to rest they were shot. The “Young Turks” made “special organizations” (“killing squad” or “the liquidation of the Christian element”) they burned them alive, throw them off cliffs and drowned them. In 1922 when the genocide was over around 388,000 Armenians were
I have selected to look at the Armenian genocide as the central topic for my Senior Project. The Armenian Genocide is the term given to the systematic killings of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during the first World War. This event is important because it is argued to be the first modem genocide and was one of the events studied in the attempt to define what a genocide is. The Armenian genocide is so important for study because of it's close relation to the creation of the nation of Turkey and the national identity to Armenian diaspora found around the world. The hundred years sense the start of the killings in 1915 have been a rocky road. The Turkish government refuses to recognize the event as a genocide and this has had
Elie Wiesel is quoted saying “Denial is the final phase of genocide, a second killing.” This can be seen when on April 24th, 1915, a group of Armenians were forcibly removed from their homes, and unknown to them, marched to their death. This would begin the period known to many as the Armenian Genocide. However, many still refuse to acknowledge the killings that took place. The mass genocide of Armenians is still a taboo subject in Turkey, almost 100 years after two million citizens lost their lives.
Why does the country of Turkey still deny that the Armenian Genocide occurred? First off, what is the Armenian Genocide? The Armenian Genocide is the extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the surrounding regions during 1915 to 1923. The massacres were masterminded by the government
The denial of the Armenian genocide and the use of the term “alleged” are insults to those who have agitated over the years in highlighting the genocide and the Armenian people themselves. The pictorial anger and anguish of this painful traumatic experience had left the survivors of this horrific event with deep scars beyond repairs. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a dark world for the Armenians who were held helpless and bound at the treacherous hand of the Muslim Turks of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Armenian Genocide includes: the context of power of the Ottoman Empire, the phases of destruction and Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge the genocide and provide support to the Armenians.
The Armenian Genocide was the systematic killing where over one and a half million Armenians were killed in the hands of the Ottoman Empire. The primary cause of the genocide was the Committee of Union and Progress, specifically Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha, and Djemal Pasha, due to their trans-nationalistic ideas of a nation for only the Turks.