Ottoman Empire

Similarly many academics have theorized about the role to which Islam played in the ethnic and nationalist formations of the Kurds. In his essay “The Impact of Islam on Kurdish Identity in the Middle East,” Hakan Ozoglu argues that Kurdish identity evolved through various, overlapping phases with Islam at the core of its formation process, a process he calls “dialectical, dialogical, and monological” (18). First, while the term “Kurd” was not ethnically associated with the modern term Kurd,…

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 government, uses propaganda to manipulated public opinion, tax prices were raised against the Armenian citizens, and the Armenian population were dehumanized. Firstly, the Turkish…

Children squabbling over the last packet of Play-Doh. Presidential candidates debating over the possible ways to create jobs and a fruitful economy in the United States. Sons and daughters instigating a family feud during the loss of a parent over inheritances. What do these everyday situations have in common? Fighting. Since the dawn of recollection, humans have found confrontation to be the simplest way of solving a conflict. From cradle to the grave, contest and struggle are as integral to…

Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Of particular interest to these states is that of the Ottoman Empire. In 1916 during the First World War, France, Britain and Russia began to create a divided Ottoman Empire between them, sketched out on a map. This secret agreement, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, so named because of its creators Mark Sykes of Britain and Francois Georges-Picot of France. This entente intended to partition the Arab states of the Empire between the Triple…

ideas of Shinto secular, in that the aim was to create a sense of nationhood and to unify Japan, facilitated through the nation-state, in Turkey, as Keral argues, secularisation was an initiative to enforce a single ideology in opposition to the Ottoman empire in which multiple ideologies, pan-Ottomanism, pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism all existed. Secularisation is a global phenomenon of…

had started, for hundreds of years the Armenians had been discriminated against while living in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians had occupied the region in present day Turkey long before the Ottoman Empire came to be. Then, in the sixteenth century, the Armenians were taken over and integrated into the powerful and far-flung Ottoman Empire. Yet as a Christian minority in a dominantly Muslim empire, the Armenians were regularly discriminated against. The first appearance of discrimination came…

Each of the entente powers, they had certain areas of the Middle East that they wanted to have control of. For example, Russia has always wanted a warm water port, specifically the Turkish Straits. They, also, were interested in the Ottoman Palestine area for religious reasons. France thought they had ‘historic rights’ to the area of Syria and Lebanon. It is this area which France wanted to possess. The British wanted to control land that protected their sea route to India. These are…

Mark Biondich is a professor of the Balkans at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His book, The Balkans, looks at the region following the decline of the Ottoman Empire. More specifically, he discusses how the contrasting forces of nationalism and foreign intervention have caused the mass violence which are unfortunately synonymous with Balkan history. Balkan nationalist movements followed a similar path beginning with cultural revival and ending with political agitation for national…

worst genocides, caused by the Turkish government, the Armenian were seen as lesser than their non- christian neighbors and killed over their beliefs. Subjected to higher tax laws and unequal treatment, the Armenian people still thrived under the Ottoman rule. During World War One, the Armenian people became a threat to the Turkish Government provoking a extermination of a the people.A genocide is defined by the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular…

deaths of over 1.5 million Christian Armenians in Europe during World War I. In the years between 1915 and 1918 the Turkish government carried out a genocide against the Armenian population of the former Ottoman Empire. The Young Turks, who also caused the 1909 revolution which weakened the Ottoman Empire severely, are held responsible for the genocide.…