Western Armenia

1915 the Ottoman Empire began a campaign with the intention of ethnically cleansing the nation of all Other. The Armenians have long held a position of “Otherness” in the world. Being a Christian people in a Muslim empire, sharing a religion but not a cultural history with a northern neighbor, and appearing white but having traits of the “Oriental” has made the Armenian people exist are cultural and racial borderlands. In this paper, I am going to look at the migration of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to Western Europe, with a focus on the United States, between the years of 1890 and 1915. In a time…

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…

Armenians. One of the many reasons the Ottomans wanted to get rid of the Armenians was because they believed that the only way to save the Turkish state was to minimize the Christian population, which were the Armenians. Also, because they felt that these non-Muslim Armenians created the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the internal demographic and economic pressures. Also, they believed that those who were non-Muslim were second-level meaning below them and felt as if they weren’t any good…

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 were killed from this mission, while others were sentenced to death in trial. After the genocide,…

After, there were fewer than 400,000. The others were killed in what historians considered a genocide. Armenians marked the date April 24, 1915, when the killings first began. The Young Turks sought to rid Turkey of the Armenian population, which resulted in much of the Armenian population being exiled from large parts of Western Armenia and forced to march the Syrian desert. “About 1.2 million Armenians - some estimates put the number at 1.5 million - died from armed conflict, massacres, and…

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…

From Natives to Foreigners: The Mechanisms of Modernity Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians? This question sets the tone, of the overt “events ”of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, which begs the question, how can these “events” be recognized by both, the Armenian Republic and the Turkish State; but, does not create a discourse to clearly answer what transpired? Regardless of the label used, the result was destruction of virtually every Armenian community in the Ottoman…

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…

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,…

The Armenian people and the Jewish people were both involved in a genocide based on prejudice, with the intent to completely wipe out their race. The Nazi’s and The Turkish people were responsible for the Genocide of these two groups. The Nazis carried out one of the most notorious crimes in history, The Holocaust. They killed countless minorities but specifically targeted the Jewish. During World War 1, The Ottoman Empire was having a lot of turmoil between the two main ethnicities in the…