Armenian Genocide Report

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The Armenian genocide is one more problem the U.S has to deal with leading into world war 1 , some people believe this does not have a very significant tie to world war 1 but I believe this is significant reasons. This bibliography will follow through with what is happening today with the Armenian genocide and what happened during the Armenian Genocide and the denial that the Turkish government, which they still say they had nothing to do with the genocide, Well the Armenians say this is all by the Turkish. Read the report and you will see why. The Armenian genocide. The Armenian genocide was a genocide that happened in between 1915 and 1917. The genocide by most Armenians are said to have done by the Turkish government. We'll the Turkish …show more content…

This matters because 1.5 million were taken due to the fall of Turkey and the fear of the Armenians we're going to take over. This genocide was taken place at the hands of the Ottoman empire when world war 1 was just starting. This happened where turkey is but in that time it was The Ottoman Empire , and at this time The Ottoman Empire was failing and decreasing in power (History.com). The Ottoman Empire was shared by Armenians and the Muslims.“The Ottoman rulers, like most of their subjects, were Muslim. They permitted religious minorities like the Armenians to maintain some autonomy, but they also subjected Armenians, who they viewed as “infidels,” to unequal and unjust treatment.” (History.com). This is why the Armenians were subjected to genocide, because they were outnumbered, hated and shunned upon by the Muslims. “In January 1915 Enver Paşa attempted to push back the Russians at the battle of Sarıkamış, only to suffer the worst Ottoman …show more content…

The only difference here is that the Armenians weren’t killed in camps but in homes and villages. The Armenians were also subject to leaving their homes, schools and livelihoods to be forced to a new country , well others who were selected were executed. The genocide was still denied by the former Turkish ambassador ” Nabi Sensoy”. The interview where he talks about the Turkish and Armenian genocide and how they never suffered and that they never had anything to do with killings. In an interview with sixty minutes Navi Sensoy stared “We have had others that had died on our side”” this of course is referring to how they do not have any involvement in a systematic genocide. The Armenian genocide was one of the most brutal genocides in history. The definition of genocide is ” The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.” ( U.N Convention). This sounds a lot like a genocide, so why are Turkey and the Turkish government denying that this was a genocide after a little over a 100 years. Let’s take a look at why turkey would deny this. “The events at issue occurred nearly a century ago in what was then the Ottoman Empire, but Turkey is still sensitive to characterizations of the killings.” (Armenian Genocide.org). I feel in my personal opinion that Turkey is ashamed of their actions and do not want to take

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