Abdul Hamid II

Genocide: The Worst Humanitarian Disaster I am not a refugee. I am a white, middle-class, female American. I am a student at a public high school in the suburbs. My country is not being torn apart by genocide. My parents haven’t been killed. My government does not rape me. My family does not live in a tent in the middle of the desert. My community does not get by on a $1.00 per week for food, but my desires and passions connect to those who do. There are hundreds of us spread out on the lawn

1. Mustafa Kemal helped establish the Republic of Turkey and became its first president. Born in the Ottoman Empire, he dethroned Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the Young Turk Revolution in 1908. Soon after, he rose up the ranks in the Ottoman military; he fought in the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, in the Balkan Wars from 1912 to 1913, and in the Great War from 1915 to 1918. He became well-known after the strong resistance in Dardanelles against the Allies. After the Treaty of Sevres, the Allies took control

Genocide. The killing of hundreds of people. The extermination of a nation. Such a thing may sound too horrible to be true, but it happens right under our very noses. And what is even worse, is when such tragic events are not recognized as what they are, or simply forgotten. Such is the case of the Armenian Genocide, also referred to as the Forgotten Genocide, the Hidden Holocaust, the Secret Genocide, or the Unremembered Genocide (Balakian xvii). The Jewish Holocaust is well known

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (March 12, 1881 - November 10, 1938), Turkish soldier and statesman, was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. He was born in the Ottoman city of Selânik (now Thessaloniki in Greece), where his birthplace is the Turkish Consulate and is also preserved as a museum. In accordance with the then prevalent Turkish custom, he was given the single name Mustafa. His father, Ali Riza (Efendi) was a customs officer who died when Mustafa was a child, his mother was

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

How the Decline of the Ottoman Empire Led to the Armenian Genocide Extended Essay in History Word Count: 3941 Douglas County High School Douglasville, GA, USA Examination Session: May 2016 Kiran Lakhani ABTRACT Through the investigation of the changes occurring from the first European presence in the Muslim world to the end of the Ottoman Empire, this essay attempts to answer why the Armenian genocide occurred. The Ottoman Empire started its decline when Napoleon entered Egypt in

Racism is the belief that one race is superior or holds dominance over another because it fails to meet requirements set by that 'superior ' group. To think that racism has ceased to exist is naïve. Racism crops up in many places that you wouldn’t think twice about such as in our criminal justice system, the ads, billboards and television commercials we produce, as well as in the small exchanges or interactions that happen in our day to day lives. In March 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported

Gifts under Muslim Law and the Requirement of Registration: An analysis of Legal Provisions and the Case Law Faizan I Nazar* I. Introduction Registration of some classes of documents is compulsorily required under the various statutes like Transfer of Property Act, Contract Act etc. The (Jammu and Kashmir) Registration Act, Svt 1970 (1922 A.D) is a specific Legislation which under section 17 enumerates the documents which have been compulsorily registered under the Act. The first class of document

Between the years of 1915 and 1918 the Ottoman Empire, under the Young Turks began a deliberate program of removing and exterminating the Armenian population; a population already dismantled through previous massacres. The Armenians were a minority in both population and religion. Because most Armenians were Christians, they were made an easy scapegoat in an empire that was mostly Islamic. With the world’s eyes on the First World War, the Armenian Genocide went mostly unnoticed and there were no

Nationalism’s true identity has always been faulty. It is simply the idea that one’s country is better than another based on the sole premise that they were born there. Over time, nationalism has not changed. People just began to use it differently, or more specifically, with more pride and violence. This change can account for the increasingly problematic events in Europe from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Like any grouping system, such as religion, differences inevitably cause disputes