Essay On The Armenian Genocide

History 101
Professor Esther Nunez
Nadine Stewart
Genocide – The Armenian Struggle
The denial of the Armenian genocide and the use of the term “alleged” are insults to those who have agitated over the years in highlighting the genocide and the Armenian people themselves. The pictorial anger and anguish of this painful traumatic experience had left the survivors of this horrific event with deep scars beyond repairs. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a dark world for the Armenians who were held helpless and bound at the treacherous hand of the Muslim Turks of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Armenian Genocide includes: the context of power of the Ottoman Empire, the plan of execution in different stages, trial, and the lack of support from their counterparts, the struggle for acceptance of the act as Genocide by Turkey government, and its refusal to acknowledge and provide support to the Armenian.
The Armenians existed for years as a Christian minority within the Ottoman Empire. They were treated as second class citizens living in a largely Muslim Empire and for the most part were tolerated as such. However, after the French Revolution the Armenians became infected with the ideas of equal rights and justice and began to exert pressure for such rights.
Nevertheless, even with symbolic expression of support and sympathy from the Great Powers for the Armenians, it was not enough to deter the majority Muslim population from carrying two massacres. The first massacre occurred in 1894 to 1896, the second in 1909 and both resulted in the death of about 200,000 thousand Armenians.
Turkey’s involvement in the World War 1 provided cover for extreme elements of the very nationalistic Young Turks regime to carry ...

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...an have put together, excellent oral evidence such as the “Survivors” by Donald Miller and his wife, the writing and extensive reports of various foreign diplomats to support that the genocide definitely took place. According to Vartanian, letter to the editor of the New York Times, he expressed that “…60,000 Armenians left in all of Turkey, whereas there are 50 million Turks. The world can see plainly who the victim of genocide was and who the perpetrator was” (Pg. 1).
It is important that all efforts should be made to highlight and delineate this genocide and any genocide so the world may be able to recognize their inceptions wherever they might occur. The mass execution was planned and carried out by murderers. The methods of execution were despicable. Moreover continued pressure should apply to Turkey to accept the fact that the Armenian Genocide was real.