Armenia wanted independence, as being one of the only major Christian minorities not yet independent "and the Turks opposing political, economical, and social views, wanted to create a new Pan Turkic empire spreading throughout all the Turkish-speaking nations of central Asia. Turkish nationalists began to see their dreams of this empire a definite possibility, and the Armenian people the only barrier standing before them. .
The 1890's were the beginning of the Turkish movement towards their Pan-Turkic empire. Several hundred thousand Armenians were killed in programs that were ordered by the Turkish nationalist leader Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Hamid's terror did, however, come to an end when a group of Turks took over the Ottoman Empire in 1908, replacing the Sultan's current government. This takeover was actually supported by the Armenians, but unfortunately, many promises went unfulfilled and reforms never came. This group of Turks, who were extremists known as the Central Committee of the Young Turk Party, was a particularly racist group, and it was they who came up with the idea to systematically rid the Ottoman Empire of the Armenians. The Young Turk Party now ruled the Ottoman Empire and was led by a group of three young men: Ismail Enver, Ahmed Jemal, and Talaat Pasha. It was they who organized the plan to completely rid the world of the Armenian race in a step towards fulfilling their Pan-Turkic Dreams. These Young Turk leaders saw World War I as the perfect opportunity to carry out their plan of genocide.
The killings continued under the Ottoman rule, in the years 1915-1916. On April 24, 1915, commemorated worldwide by Armenians today as Genocide Memorial Day, approximately 600 Armenian intellectuals, leaders, writers, and thinkers were summoned and murdered in Istanbul. Also on that day, in Constantinople, about 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were killed in the streets and in their homes by butcher battalions assembled by the Turkish Young Turk government.
The Armenian Genocide, the First Genocide of Twentieth Century April is the month of mourning for Armenians around the world. ... This barbarous crime was the first Genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide. ... And this was the first Genocide of 20th century. ... The Turkish government today denies the Genocide charges. ... Many countries also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide. ...
April 24 marks the anniversary of a horrible tragedy, the first genocide of 20th century, the Armenian Genocide. ... The countries that recognize the Armenian Genocide are France, Russia, Sweden, Greece , Argentina the EU parliament and others. ... A large number of the deportees were of course women, that sector of the Armenian population yet untouched by the unfolding genocide. ... A plan for genocide is never satisfied with inducing death. ... And a plan for genocide requires contingents which will carry out the aims of the program for extermination. ...
" (Longoria, The Armenian Genocide). ... " (Longoria, The Armenian Genocide). ... Many nations today do not recognize the Armenian Genocide as an actual "Genocide.... Dave Trott Visits Armenia To Recognize Armenian Genocide Of 1915). This shows how some are drastically in favor of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide as an actual genocide. ...
The most commonly known genocide is the Nazi Holocaust, but the one less commonly known with an equivalent amount of brutality is the Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust. The Armenian Genocide seems to have been ignored and this can be due to the fact that today, Turkey still rejects that the massacre was "genocide". ... Prior to the Genocide, the Armenians and Turkish people lived together without conflict. ... Another factor that hid the Armenian Genocide was WWI. ... The death toll from genocide is still rising because of the Armenian Genocide's influence....
Consequently, Turks did not apply any genocide to the Armenians in 1915 relocation. In the website of Armenian institute it is said that "The Armenian Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. ... Armenians stabbed the Ottoman State that was their own state to establish an independent Armenia. ... Even if they have lots of privileges came from 1839 Firman, 1908 Berlin Congress and 1908 Constitution arrangements they collaborated with the enemy both in the border areas and in the inner regions, and p...
This isolation from Turkey by Armenia allowed for Armenian diaspora campaigns focused on recognizing the Armenian genocide of 1915. ... Turkeys official position is against the recognition of the Armenian genocide due to legislatures that such decisions are not binding under international law (Iskandaryan 46) which goes back to the point that although Turkey is on the defense, they are not fighting the fact that the genocide was under their supervision. ... As Professor Bardakjian went over in class, Obama made pledges during his election campaign that he would support the Armenian diaspora ca...
In Night, Eliezer struggles through the Jewish Holocaust, yet years before, the Armenian people had to battle arguably harder conditions in order to survive genocide. ... However, in the past, society has had to re-evaluate these two horrible events and the Jewish Holocaust's reassessments tend to have more meaning and are in contrast to the basic ignorance of the public toward the Armenian Genocide. ... On the other hand, the Armenian Genocide tends to meet with the ignorance of the public. ... (Armenian National Institute). ... The Jews and Armenians had one major downfall, fear, and th...
About 3 million Armenians live in Armenia and some 1.5 million more reside in other parts of the former Soviet Union. ... The Sassanids initially seized Armenia, but the Roman Empire wrested control of Armenia later that century and then restored the Arsacids to power, crowning Tiridat I I I as Armenian king. ... In 1828 Perisa cede what is today nakhichevan, Nagorno-Karabagh, and Armenia to Russia, resulting in the creation of a Russian Armenian and a Turkish Armenia. Russian Armenia prospered. ... In 1915, under the cover of WWI, the Turkish government implemented and enacted this century&#x...
The Armenian Holocaust was the first genocide of the twentieth century; it decimated the Armenian Christians inhabiting Turkey and accounted for almost ten percent of Turkey's population at that time. ... The aim of this essay is to understand the history prior to the genocide, the reasons for it and the massacres against the Armenians during the war. The first topic to address is the history prior to genocide. ... As Christians, the Armenians were already considered enemies of the state, this call for jihad merely intensified the Muslim zeal and hate toward Armenians.12 The second re...