The Armenian Holocaust was a time of pure and utter despair, it was a brutal genocide that killed approximately 1.5 million people. It took place in the Ottoman Empire; the Turkish Armenians wanted to make the empire thoroughly Turkish and they especially wanted to get the Christian Armenians out of the empire. As a result, there were massacres and deportations that ended in many deaths of horrific exterminations. The exterminations consisted of torturing, enslavement, and deportations with no food or water to go along, all in order to “cleanse” the Turkish nation.
The Ottoman Empire has been known for being very powerful in the past. Although it had declined in power when Sultan Abdul Hamid was removed from the throne, he was the Sultan for many years but was voted out by citizens who wanted to have a return of constitutional rule. The constitutional rule was a rule that restored the Ottoman constitution. As the empire was declining, they decided that it would be best to subjugate all social groups who were not Turkish or Muslim which …show more content…
In the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), there is a lot of controversies that has been getting lawyers and governments involved deeply to finally get the Armenians some closure. The ECHR does many investigations and they began investigating the Armenian Holocaust because of a man named Doğu Perinçek. Perinçek is a chairman for the “Turkish workers party”; he described the incident as an international lie, denying that the 1.5 million deaths were false. This brought lots of anger to many people, and Perinçek was later convicted of racial discrimination as a result of a Switzerland organization filing complaints because his actions were against anti-racism laws. In the end, Perinçek filed complaints because he felt as though he should have the freedom to speak his mind, eventually his conviction was unjustified and Switzerland 's complaint was
The Ottoman Empire has been known for being very powerful in the past. Although it had declined in power when Sultan Abdul Hamid was removed from the throne, he was the Sultan for many years but was voted out by citizens who wanted to have a return of constitutional rule. The constitutional rule was a rule that restored the Ottoman constitution. As the empire was declining, they decided that it would be best to subjugate all social groups who were not Turkish or Muslim which …show more content…
In the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), there is a lot of controversies that has been getting lawyers and governments involved deeply to finally get the Armenians some closure. The ECHR does many investigations and they began investigating the Armenian Holocaust because of a man named Doğu Perinçek. Perinçek is a chairman for the “Turkish workers party”; he described the incident as an international lie, denying that the 1.5 million deaths were false. This brought lots of anger to many people, and Perinçek was later convicted of racial discrimination as a result of a Switzerland organization filing complaints because his actions were against anti-racism laws. In the end, Perinçek filed complaints because he felt as though he should have the freedom to speak his mind, eventually his conviction was unjustified and Switzerland 's complaint was