Abdul Hamid II

The Armenian people had made their home of the Caucasus region of Eurasia for around 3,000 years. For some of that time the kingdom of Armenia was an autonomous entity at the beginning of the fourth century A.D. and became the first nation in the world that made Christianity its official religion. During the fifteenth century, Armenia was absorbed into the mighty Ottoman Empire. In the other hand, the Ottoman rulers were Muslim. They permitted religious minorities, like the Armenians, to maintain

European powers, the Ottomans started a period of reform, known as the Tanzimat (1839 – 1876), which means reorganization in Turkish. There were major reforms developed for the empire, but whether they were truly effective is still debated. Sultan Mahmud II and other educated Ottomans with European influence, started one of the largest reform movements in the history of the Ottoman Empire . With the Tanzimat, life in the Ottoman Empire changed significantly, changing the way Ottomans lived. The Ottoman

In 1915, officials of the Turkish government commenced an ambition to eradicate the Armenian people residing in the Ottoman Empire. Ultimately, the genocide slaughtered approximately 1.5 million of the 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time and displaced hundreds of thousands more upon its end. To date, the atrocities staining the Turkish deserts have still not been recognized at the international level. The plight of the Armenians originated centuries ago in the mountains of the Caucasus

By the turn of the twentieth century, the once powerful Ottoman-Islamic Middle Eastern order was rendered unstable by conflicts emanating from its core components to the challenge of European dominance. Its economic order was restructured into different parts of the region. The Capitulations, were transformed into tools of European economic and political control. In an effort to recover Middle Eastern military strength and prevent rebellion and European imperialism, the rulers of Egypt and the Ottoman

Armenian demonstration is covered in Armenian blood. Hundreds of Armenians are killed when Turkish armed forces and mobs attack Armenians three days later. Approximately seven months later, Turks rob and destroy the village of Vardenis. Sultan Abdul Hamid II suspends the Armenian National Constitution in 1893. The “Gelie-guzan Hole Carnage” took place on August 20-27, 1894. In this attack, the Turks inaugurated the system of slaughtering unarmed people, which later became “the prototype for Hilter’s

witch hunts can be boiled down into one category, and that is hatred of another group, because of their beliefs. In 1915 the Turkish government started a crusade against Christian Armenians. It included horrific massacres that were started by Abdul-Hamid II who thought the Armenians wanted a revolution, so he had 300,000 Armenians killed. The result of this was friction between the Muslim and Christian community (Gale 2012). “The Turkish leadership blamed the Armenians as a liability that was weakening

The beginning of the twentieth century brought with it relative peace and growth of economies throughout the world. New technological developments such as airplanes, radio, cinema, and automobiles were created during this time frame. Europe’s powerful countries consolidated in their colonial conquests from earlier decades that balanced their alliances. However, after only a few decades into the twentieth century multiple tensions between the great powers surfaced. These tensions caused the great

While the Jewish Holocaust is more taught- and talked about in schools, other genocides/holocausts have occurred throughout the world. These include the Greek Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide, the Red Terror, the Rwandan Genocide, the Zunghar Genocide, among many others. Another genocide includes the Armenian Genocide, even though some people debate that it was not a genocide or that it simply did not happen, even the state of Turkey denies that the genocide even occurred. Although, others do agree

World War II in 1939. In 1941, as Germany conquered new territory in Eastern Europe, specialized paramilitary units called Einsatzgruppen were used to murder around two million Jews and "partisans", often in mass shootings. By the end of 1942, victims were being regularly transported by freight train to specially built extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, most were systematically killed in gas chambers. The campaign of murder continued until the end of World War II in Europe in

being as per Islamic philosophical thinking. Sultan Mahmud and Abdul Majid's changes were helped by two noticeable Shaykh ul Islams