Armenian Genocide Occur Essay

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What conditions are necessary for a genocide to occur? Armenian genocide took place in 1915 during the World War One, forcing hundreds of thousands of Armenians to leave their houses. Factors that most contributed to the outbreak of the Armenian Genocide included nationalism, economic jealousy, and the desire of Turks to create a new homogeneous Turkish state without christians. During that time, most of the Armenian population lived on the Turkish territory which made it even easier for Turks to commit violence. They were responsible for horrific actions such as torture, rape, destruction of property and death, affecting nearly two millions of Armenian lives.
World War One has contributed the most to the start of the genocide. Turkey at that …show more content…

We can almost compare this group to the Nazi to get an idea about Young Turks’ beliefs and ideas on how they wanted to create a new state without Armenians and other ethnic groups of people. Since the Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire for a long time before the massacres, they were able to build many churches and other constructions that represented their culture. However, after the deportation of Armenians, Young Turks and their followers destroyed all the remaining Armenian building and monument, and also renamed rivers, towns with everything to get rid of Armenian presence. Another way in which the genocide was carried out is the forced conversion to Islam of women and children. Most of the Armenians, of course, did not want to convert so that they and their children don’t lose their Armenians identity. Armenian women that had young children usually had to choose if they want their child away to convert to Islam and survive losing Armenian identity or be tortured and raped otherwise. Turks also kidnapped Armenian children and gave them to Turkish families, they forced women to join Turkish “harems” to serve there as slaves. Those who refused to do it were drowned in rivers, crucified, or just

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