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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

As provided by the first document, the Armenians were specifically targeted by the Turkish government, meaning that they were singled out as a ethnicity (Document 1). The document provides historical context as to what had happened inside the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and it shows that there was identification of the Armenians as people that should be exterminated. Similarly, the Turkish Minister restated the fact that the government had called for the end of all Armenians (Document 2). The minister’s point of view as a government official shows that the government was involved in the plan and was supportive of it. The photo in document 5 shows the large pile of dead bodies of Armenian people, presumably massacred by the government as shown by the neatness of the stacking (Document 5). Armin T. Wegner, the photographer, took this photo to prove that Armenians were being targeted, and to show what he has been seeing during his time in the Ottoman Empire. Because the Armenian people had been classified as a group that needed to be eradicated, the government had identified them, and completed the first part of the genocide process. The dehumanization of the Armenian people by stripping them of their belongings is reminiscent of the second step in the genocide process, expropriation. Before the war had taken place, there were 2200

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

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

Also, the Turks believed the Armenians were fighting with the Russians, which was the enemy. The Armenians felt they were being treated unfairly and protested. The protest infuriated the Turks and they retaliated by mass killings towards the Armenians following into a genocide. A genocide

Christianity has become something more than a religion for the Armenian people. It was their soul and mentality. However, the Armenians had especially hard times when their ancestral lands were invaded from the Far East and Central Asian Turkic tribes. When a breakdown of Constantinople began it also affected an allied capital of the Byzantine – the Great Armenia, and so hard times began: Christian churches were turned into mosques, the minarets were set around, and the faces of the saints in the churches painted over. The Ottomans considered Armenians, Greeks and Slavs as an inferior class. Islamic fundamentalism was formed in the second half of the 19th century and flourished during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid. Armenians became especially hateful for the Turks when they hoped to get help from the Christian

I will make sure my fellow subjects forget of the killings in order to create an ultimate bond between the Armenians and the Ottomans. This will be the dawn of a new age for the Ottoman empire. Think of how many happy and equal subjects you will have. You will have less conflicts involving the Armenians and Ottomans. If you are not truly blind, vision the future and greatness the Ottoman empire will have.

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 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

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 Jewish Holocaust is well known throughout the world and is taught to all students. But who talks of the Armenians? Who talks of the innocent people being forced by the Turks to leave their 3,000 year-old homeland and march without stopping to the Syrian Desert (Bournoutian

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

The strongest men and religious leaders were killed as well. The seventh stage is extermination. Armenians were exiled to the Syrian desert, there they were killed or left to die. Government agents, death squads, criminals, and bandits were sent to attack them. The Turks used burnings, poison gas, and mass

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.