Armenians

Karnig Panian’s “Goodbye Antoura” is a memoir of the Armenian Genocide that took place during the period of World War One. Panian reflects on his heartbreaking and shocking struggles he had to endure throughout the genocide. Being only five at the time of the deportation he was forced to be introduced to the loss of family, exhaustion, and severe starvation. The genocide was planned and administered by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian citizens of this mainly Turkish state from the year…

Both “Persepolis” and “The Armenian Community of Tabriz” are presenting the life in Iran during Reza Shah’s reign. However, each passage has its unique approaches and sides that sometimes correspond to each other. Both Satrapi and Gregorian are demonstrating their childhood period. Although it took place in the same period, there are also some differences in their early childhood, lifestyle, financial status and household accommodation. Satrapi’s early childhood was spent in an easygoing way.…

The life in Iran during Reza Shah’s tenure was full of inequity, harshness and cruelty. This period affected not only the local population, but also the Armenian community. Both “Persepolis” and “The Armenian Community of Tabriz” are bright examples of how indigenous people and unwelcomed non-natives suffered from the decisions that government made. As Satrapi brings up in “Persepolis”, her early childhood was spent in an easygoing way. She was brought up in a well-to-do family. She had mother,…

Remarque succeeds in giving brutal imagery throughout the novel. The reader surely understands the dynamics of this marvelous work. How changed are these young men. Change into veteran soldiers of war with no more foolish thoughts of patriotic bravery. How can they have such thoughts they ask since their former innocence no longer exists and now these words have no meaning if they ever did. The psychological condition of the men preparing for the next battle is made the more real when visiting…

Are Turkish Armenians Victim or Survivals Last October on the 29th, Turkey had celebrated the Turkish Republic day’s 93 anniversary. Every single government representative talked about the independence “War” and the great victory of the proclamation of The Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kamal Ataturk (Hardy). None of the officials; however, referenced how did this republic build. Nobody mentioned the lands that were emptied after the genocide. Nor the systematic ethnic cleansing brought up. Hence,…

1915, a group called the Young Turks had been in power since 1908 when Sultan Hamid II was overthrown. The Turks developed a distrust towards the Armenians, who were Christians and not Muslim, which the Turkish people were. The Armenians and the Turks cohabitated in the same area, the Ottoman Empire. Eventually, the Turks wanted to drive the Armenians out of their land, and the controversy got very violent. The United States government should recognize the events of 1915 in Armenia as a genocide…

Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917," writer Katharine Derderian argues how sexual violence and gender-specific acts were central aspects of the Armenian Genocide. Derderian explains how after the murder of the Armenian leadership and military, Ottoman authorities and Ittihadist supporters sent surviving Anatolia Armenians to the Syrian desert for extermination. During the ethnic cleansing, Armenian women faced intense violence due to females…

When the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire became more educated in the Ottoman society starting in the 1800’s, the most educated citizens of Armenia began to ask the empire for equal and better rights. These requests from the Armenians along with a quest for territory and power drove the Ottomans to begin killing any Armenian that was within their region. The genocide gave insight into how Hitler’s mind got so twisted to kill off people of his own country, along with how Armenia became…

Earlier on he had led anti-Turkish Armenian guerilla forces, and was one of leaders of the 1903 the anti-Turkish Armenian apprising in Sasun. The 1915 massacre of Armenians was preceded by a revolt of Armenians living in the Ottoman city of Van, against the Ottoman Army, allying with Russian Army which was advancing towards the town. The Turks, considering the Armenian population a Fifth Column, retaliated brutally, by mass deportation of Armenians, which resulted on many of them dying of…

punishment of the crime did not yet exist in the era of the Armenian Ottoman genocide in 1915. Once one of the largest empires the world has ever seen, the Ottoman Empire expanded to include nearly the entire Mediterranean coast east of Bosnia, including massive portions of the Middle East to the Horn of Africa. For centuries, the Ottoman empire would be home to a multicultural hub of languages, cultures, religions and ideas. Mass…