ember World War II, and the effects it caused around the world, especially to the Jewish People.

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

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 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 word genocide was invented by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 to describe the horrors and crimes of the Der NationalSozialisten or Nazi party. The Holocaust Brought forth a new level of horror almost unthinkable at the time, thus leaving a deep scar in many people and the world. Still haunting the world to this day the Holocaust gave the crime of genocide it 's name and sadly crimes like it continued throughout the 20th century.

The Armenian Genocide was one of the worst planned killings in history taking over one and half million lives. First having disputes with the Turkish government in 1894, Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens. This is also known as the Armenian Holocaust. Being part of a religious minority in the region the Armenian people were seen as inferior to the Muslims and having very few political and legal rights. Issues increased during World War One when Ottoman religious authorities began a holy war against all christians expect their allies. Turkish military leaders began to think if the Allies won that the Armenians would turn and fight for them. As the war continued

The Armenian Genocide started in April of 1915 and extended on for three years, ending when the Ottoman Empire surrendered in 1918. This was the first genocide of the twentieth century. During World War I when they saw a decline in the Ottoman Empire authority and witness the military loses increase. They blamed the Armenian people for these problems (used them as scapegoats”) and the genocide had started (EDB UTEXAS).

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

The Armenian Genocide was carried out during World War 1 between the years nineteen fifteen and nineteen eighteen. It was planned and managed by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. The mass of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the mass was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were systematically massacred all over the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and terribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was confiscated. After a year of calm at the end of World War One, the slaughter was renewed between nineteen twenty and nineteen twenty three the turks organized massacres of Armenians in and as a result of Turkish atrocities more than one million of Armenians were slaughtered, died from cold, hunger and epidemics, hundreds of thousands Armenians were captivated, assimilated, deported by force from their native places (Armenocide.am). Today, most historians call this event genocide–“a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people.” The Armenian people were issued to deportation, seizure, persecution, massacre, and hunger. Ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or

They claim that the Armenians were taken for protection from the war that was going to happen. The Leaders of the murders were found guilty. This genocide is highly controversial because not too many of people admit to what happened. To this present day, it is against the law in Turkey to talk about the events that happened in the Armenian Genocide.

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

The Armenians were discriminated against and abused. They were Christians, while the Turkish government was mainly Muslim. This caused the government to think lowly of the Armenians since they feared the

From 1915 to 1923, the Armenians and the Turkish government where involved in a genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, about 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. Today, most historians call this event a genocide a premeditated and systematic campaign to get rid of an entire population.

The Armenian Genocide began in 1915 and ended in 1923 when the Ottoman Empire dismantled and became the Republic of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire consisted of regions in three different continents which caused their empire to be multilingual and multinational. The empire reached from Southeast Europe, parts of Central Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. The Turks, who controlled the Ottoman Empire were Islamic and some people within their empire were not, but that was not an overt issue until the Armenians wanted representation within the government.

In 1944 the creation of the word genocide is credited to a Polish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. He created the term genocide as a response to the Holocaust and the viciousness of World War II. He combined the Greek word genos which means race and the Latin word cide which translates to killing. Lemkin defined genocide as a plan to demolish a group of people and strategizing to eliminate key fundamentals of the group’s existence including but not limited to race, culture, traditions and religion. Lemkin’s thoughts in creating the concept of genocide were to make people aware global

The melancholy part was the fact that many were executed before they got the chance to flee to neighboring countries for freedom. The Turks or Ottoman Empire was a caliphate under sultan Abdul Hamid-II. They had reasonable suspicion of the Armenians being superior to the Turks and had resentment for their education and wealth and were Christian on top of being loyal to Russia. It was at this point; the sultan didn’t seem to like the Armenians. On April 24th, 1915, the Armenian Genocide began. The Turks arrested and executed seven hundred Armenians in one day.” There was a group similar to world war two’s SS, called “The young Turks.” They were the Sultan’s murder squad or “butcher battalions” to make sure the genocide runs smoothly. As one officer of this “battalion” mentioned “the liquidation of the Christian elements”. They drowned people, burned them at stakes, forced them to jump off cliffs to their deaths, or crucified them in the manner consistent of the crucifixion of Christ. These killing squads were comprised of murderers, ex-convicts, rapists and many of the Turkish