Armenia

Armenia offers many different features and different sides of life. One of the most important traits about Armenia is the culture. The many traditions and rituals that they have. Traditions are all over the world and have been around for many years. Everyone and everywhere do people celebrate their traditions differently but all of them include more than one person, all of them are supposed to be happy and joyful. Traditions are meant for people to reunite. The traditions I will be talking about that occur in Armenia have been around for quite a while. Rituals come from people, friends, family. If we hear of a new one we might want to try it out and do it many years on, that then becomes your own ritual. Armenians celebrate this seven days,…

Do you know what a genocide is? According to Webster’s Dictionary a genocide is “the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.” There is a total count of thirty documented genocides in history. Twenty-nine of them are recognized by the United States as a genocide and one is not, also known as the Armenian Genocide The Armenian genocide is familiar to some but not many, as of 2015 should the United States recognize this as genocide? Armenia,…

Many people have heard of the Armenian Genocide, but not many people know the sinister methods the Turks used to kill the Armenians. A genocide is a systematic, planned mass murder of a particular group. This time, The Turkish government wanted to eliminate the Armenian population of Turkey. Armenia became part of the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century, meaning that the Turks controlled Armenia. In 1908, the Young Turks took over the government. After years of being discriminated, the…

There was unnecessary use of force by Armenians because they wanted to get psychological advantage over Azerbaijan. This attack can never be militarily justified because it gave no military advantage to Armenia. Armenians also claim that there was a corridor left for people who wanted to leave the town peacefully. But in real people were killed while leaving town through that corridor. This was just a trap to kill people. Question arises that if there was a corridor open then why people were…

INTRODUCTION The Berlin Treaty, which was signed in 1878 between Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Italy, revised the Treaty of San Stefano in the same year, was the turning point for Armenian Question and Eastern Question. As a result of this treaty, the situation in the Balkans was settled to a large extent by European Powers in accordance with their interest. However, the Armenian Question was suspended for the next decades. The decision…

The denial of the Armenian genocide has been a problem for many of the Armenian people around the world. It is not only an issue of Armenian-Turkish relations, but also an issue of Armenian relations with the rest of the world. It has become a serious issue for Armenia becoming a part of the first world. The essence of the Turkish denial of the genocide includes collusion with other governments as well as using media outlets to aid their cause. Understanding the issues that are being denied is a…

By definition, I certainly classify as a New American, yet I take trouble with the word new. I’ve always been an American even when I legally wasn’t. I became a naturalized U.S citizen at the age of sixteen two days before Christmas. Unbeknownst to me, I was a legal resident until I was awoken one morning and told to head downtown, sign a document, take an oath, and head back home for dinner. — What do you mean I wasn’t American? I said dumbfounded, for I knew no other home but the United…

needed to classify a genocide and how Turkey fulfilled them in detail. Classification The two groups of people involved in this genocide are the Armenians and the Turks. Obviously, the two inhabited Armenia and Turkey respectively. A book called Ghost Lands states that, “The vast and multicultural Ottoman Empire—the world’s most powerful Muslim polity—has allied itself with Germany. A large Christian Armenian minority, once so peaceful and trusted as to be labeled by the sultans as the…

The death told of the Genocide estimates to be over a million people. Those who were lucky enough to escape from the genocide fled to the Middle East, Russia or the United States. Either the killings of the Armenians or the deportation the number of Armenians living in Turkey fell from 2 million to under 400,000 by 1922. According to the website armenian-genocide.org, "The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was…

truth about the genocide, causing them to demand punishment for all guilty parties. Political and military leaders were arrested because of their war crimes. Many faced lengthy sentences, while some were sentenced to death. Several Young Turk leaders managed to flee to Germany, but they knew what was to come. With vengeance, a group of Armenian nationalists forged a plan known as Operation Nemesis. This plan was made to assassinate the leaders of the genocide (History.com). Many of the leaders…