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    annihilation of the Armenians?” (“Armenian Genocide Museum of America”). Not but 100 years ago, a mass murder of over 1.5 million innocent Armenian citizens occurred in the former Ottoman Empire at the hands of the Turkish military officials. Yet in the present day, many sources and scholars throughout the world refuse to accept such exterminating events that took place between the Turks and Armenians. (History.com Staff). According to Dictionary.com, the very definition of the word genocide means to “deliberately

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    The Armenian Genocide was a very bad thing during a very bad time. One of the main causes of the genocide was the intolerance of a tyrannical regime. During this time it caused a lot of different problems for the armenians. During this time there were about 1.5 million Armenians living in the empire in 1915 and almost 1.2 million people died during the genocide. This event caused a lot more things to go on in the future because of how bad it really was. During this time people were also dying

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    inquiry is the conflict between the Armenians and Turkish Government in the 20th century between 1915-1918 and how it was caused and also if there was a resolution to this conflict or has it continued through to modern times. INTRO The armenian genocide happened between 1915-1918 where 1.5 million Armenians were massacred at the hands of the Turkish government. This genocide came about in 1915 due to the muslim government threatened by the Christian Armenians who were thriving in a society that

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    The Armenian Genocide was one of the biggest genocides of all time, even bigger than the holocaust. The Armenians were the first to say that Christianity as state religion. The Ottoman Empire had taken control of Armenia during the 15th century, and they were disrespected for years and years on due to religious differences (Christians and Muslims), and the lack of respect culminated and peaked during 1915-1918. Pierpali states, “As the empire dramatically declined in territory and population, conditions

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    I. The primary underlying cause of the Armenian genocide derived from the decline of the Ottoman Empire towards the end of the 19th century, and was based on land dispute, religion, and ultra-nationalism. “One of the main factors that led to the Armenian genocide is to be found in the mental conditions and characteristics of Turkish National identity” (Akçam, 2004, 59). The Armenians have claimed their home in the southern Caucasus since 7th Century BCE. Throughout many centuries, the Mongol

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    The Armenian Genocide was a terrible atrocity that was committed against the Armenian people. During the time the genocide took place and afterwards, there had been people who had witnessed the tragedy that befell the Armenians and wrote poems in order to show the world what had truly happened to their people, and to get us, the readers, the emphasize with them as well. Some poets that highlighted the atrocious acts that happened during the Armenian genocide were Siamanto who wrote “The Dance” and

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    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

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    Young Turks were, a small number of the remaining survivors of the Armenian genocide took it into their hands to kill the Turks in retaliation and to further prevent them from killing again. From 1920 to 1922, a group of Armenian men carried out Operation Nemesis, tasked with killing the Turks who had escaped to Germany in hopes of surviving the wrath that would be waiting for them in Armenia. Starting on May 28, 1918, the Armenian National Council declared the independence of Armenia. Hovhannes Kachaznuni

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    A genocide is “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation”. Many genocides have occurred throughout history. Nobody can change what happened in the past but they can try and get disclosure. Many people have been able to get disclosure but not everybody. The Armenian Genocide took place in 1915 and continued until 1917. During this time period more than half the population of Armenians were killed. If that wasn’t bad enough, some people

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    In cases such as the Turkish-Armenian conflict, contrary sources are available. Several sources claim that the conflict was in fact a genocide, whilst others maintain that a mass ethnic cleansing was never even thought of by government officials. This issue arises because of a variety of perspectives from which historical accounts are told. However, there is physical evidence from both the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896) and the Adana Massacre (1909) which clearly indicate that there was a significant

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