Katherine Miller
Professor Muedini
IS 470
21 April 2016
The Armenian Genocide: Ignored but Not Forgotten Gandhi once said, “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate;but, it is fear.” Maybe fear is the motivator of hatred, and fear of the other drives discrimination, mistreatment, and violence. This fear can lead to tension between different groups of people such as different ethnic groups, especially in the cases of majorities and minorities. In the case of the Armenian Genocide, fear of the other brought about the extermination of the Armenian minority in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The genocide took place during and after World War I, and led to the death of approximately one million Armenians. The remaining Armenian population was …show more content…
Under the millet system, most Armenians were concentrated in the Eastern region of the Empire as of the fifteenth century; although, a large population was also in Constantinople, the empire's capital. Within the Armenians there were three m,Ian religious denominations: Armenian Apostolic, Armenian Catholic, and Armenian Protestant. They were able to govern themselves within the system without much interference from the Ottoman government at that …show more content…
In 1939 the Tanzimat, a series of reforms meant to improve the lives of minority's, were written into existence, but most reforms were never implemented. Muslims in the Ottoman Empire emphatically rejected the idea that Christians could be their equal. While other Christian minority groups began to leave the Ottoman Empire with help from other Christian countries, their Armenians, for the most part, stayed under the Empire's rule. They had lived in that region for centuries and had no desire to leave their heritage. The Armenians were given the title of loyal millets when they did not leave even though they were oppressed. The Armenians began to express discontent when Armenian intellectuals who had been studying in Europe returned disillusioned to life in the Ottoman Empire. They no longer blindly accepted being treated as second class citizens after seeing that Christians elsewhere were not discriminated against or oppressed. The Armenians began to pursue better treatment from the Ottoman
Professor Muedini
IS 470
21 April 2016
The Armenian Genocide: Ignored but Not Forgotten Gandhi once said, “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate;but, it is fear.” Maybe fear is the motivator of hatred, and fear of the other drives discrimination, mistreatment, and violence. This fear can lead to tension between different groups of people such as different ethnic groups, especially in the cases of majorities and minorities. In the case of the Armenian Genocide, fear of the other brought about the extermination of the Armenian minority in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The genocide took place during and after World War I, and led to the death of approximately one million Armenians. The remaining Armenian population was …show more content…
Under the millet system, most Armenians were concentrated in the Eastern region of the Empire as of the fifteenth century; although, a large population was also in Constantinople, the empire's capital. Within the Armenians there were three m,Ian religious denominations: Armenian Apostolic, Armenian Catholic, and Armenian Protestant. They were able to govern themselves within the system without much interference from the Ottoman government at that …show more content…
In 1939 the Tanzimat, a series of reforms meant to improve the lives of minority's, were written into existence, but most reforms were never implemented. Muslims in the Ottoman Empire emphatically rejected the idea that Christians could be their equal. While other Christian minority groups began to leave the Ottoman Empire with help from other Christian countries, their Armenians, for the most part, stayed under the Empire's rule. They had lived in that region for centuries and had no desire to leave their heritage. The Armenians were given the title of loyal millets when they did not leave even though they were oppressed. The Armenians began to express discontent when Armenian intellectuals who had been studying in Europe returned disillusioned to life in the Ottoman Empire. They no longer blindly accepted being treated as second class citizens after seeing that Christians elsewhere were not discriminated against or oppressed. The Armenians began to pursue better treatment from the Ottoman