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who had been strongly influenced by his study of the Armenian case and the persecution of Jews under Nazi law (Bright, 2015). A country like Turkey still actively denies the Armenian genocide and has passed a law to punish an individual up to 10 years in prison, to discuss the Armenian genocide (Armenian Genocide, 2010). However, there is evidence against the Turkish government that prove the Ottoman Empire intended to exterminate the Armenian group. In the Ottoman Empire society the Turkish…

The Armenian Genocide “The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling them to set the record straight.” This was written by author Michael Bobelian, who wrote about not only the events of the Armenian genocide, but the continual denial of it that continues even today. Today, despite pressure from around the world, the Turkish Government still continues to deny the events that occurred against the Armenian…

The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide in the 20th century. It was a cruel event much like other genocides, but this particular one killed an estimation of 1,500,000 people. Armenians were blamed by Turkish for partnering up with the Russians during World War I. The consequence for the Armenians resulted in being forced to give up their weapons; Also those that were in the army were killed or put into slave work until they died. The Turks would find any way to get rid of the Armenians.…

The Ottoman Empire had an Armenian genocide that happened happened in 1950. The empire came into power in 1299 and was founded in the end of the 13th century by Oghuz, a Tturkish tribal leader. It was located in the historically known area of western europe also know as the Turkish Empire, aka Turkey, that was ruled under islamic law that made its so non -muslims were second class . The Oottomans crossed into eEurope in 1354 and then came in and ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453…

destruction of over 1.5 million minorities living in Turkey during WWI, throughout the years 1915 to 1917 . The ethnic cleansing of these minorities is known as the Armenian Genocide and included the Assyrians, Pontian, Anatolian Greeks, and the Armenian minorities ( “The Armenian Genocide”, 2015). For about three thousand years the Armenian people had a made a home for themselves in Eurasia. For some of that time the kingdom was a self governed area but, generally, control of the land moved…

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 sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger." The Turkish government is most outspoken in the Denial of the Armenian Genocide. The government of Turkey deny…

Ronald Suny’s book “A History of the Armenian Genocide” attempts to explain the Young Turks reformist ideas to use massacres as a solution to the what they deemed as an Armenian threat. Suny explores the idea that the leaders of the genocide ( the Committee of Union and Progress and later the Young Turks) turned fear, resentment, and the issues of war into mass killings as a way to find a solution to the Armenian problem. I fully agree with Suny’s examination of this genocide because I believe…

Bloxham, Donald. "Rethinking the Armenian Genocide." History Today, vol. 55, no. 6, June 2005, pp. 28-30. EBSCO MAS Ultra- School Edition, search.ebscohost.com.ursulinedallas.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=17273544&site=ehost-live. This source explains what happened during and right before the Armenian genocide in Turkey. This article helps the reader discern and sort out differing viewpoints by giving facts about the genocide and the related complicated issues which surround this…

Armenian Genocide "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler once said this when addressing the Nazi army about the upcoming genocide of millions of Jews. A genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, race, or culture. Genocides are crucial to our past, as well as crucial to our future. However, not many people are aware of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was the mass killing of 1.5 million Christian Armenians. People…

and the Latin word cide meaning “killing”. The Armenian genocide, although covered up, was particularly brutal. The Ottoman Turks had a lot to do with the genocide taking place, the murders were brutal and the Ottoman Turks and Turkish people today have had a lot of control over the aftermath. At the time, the Ottoman Turks had just entered World War I, taking the side of Germany and the Austro- Hungarian Empire. The Turks were worried about the Armenian people living in the area, thinking that…