Western Armenia

Genocide: noun: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Holodomor was a man-made mass genocide that affected millions of people in Ukraine between the years of 1932 and 1933. It all started when Joseph Stalin tried to create a new policy, the collectivization policy. The end goal of this new policy was to increase the productivity of farmers by removing them from small farms and relocating them to much larger farms and using…

Carmen Garcia Ms. Treesara / Mr.Bilsky World History / Composition II 5 June 2016 Genocide Essay Talat Pasha once said, “The only way to dispose of the Armenian question is to kill the Armenian.” Those who agreed with Talat statement were obsessed with the idea of exterminating all the Armenian people. The Turkey genocide should be considered a genocide because it followed the 10 stages of genocide. The genocide was between the Turkish and the Armenians.…

to call for religious equality and autonomy from the Ottoman state. In contrast, many ethnic groups such as the Greeks and the Balkan states fought for complete independence and often achieved their goals through violent uprisings with the help of Western nations, the Armenians only wished for equality and the ability to fully preside over themselves while still being under Ottoman rule as a semi-separate sovereignty. However, the Armenian hope for social equality was met with reluctance and…

the Armenian genocide has been a problem for many of the Armenian people around the world. It is not only an issue of Armenian-Turkish relations, but also an issue of Armenian relations with the rest of the world. It has become a serious issue for Armenia becoming a part of the first world. The essence of the Turkish denial of the genocide includes collusion with other governments as well as using media outlets to aid their cause. Understanding the issues that are being denied is a topic of…

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…

In fact, when it comes to the foreign affairs, the Armenian genocide remains a controversial issue. Reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey is unlikely to come in the near future because the Turkish government still exercises an uncompromising policy of genocide denial. Although the world’s outlook on the issue of the Armenian genocide has yet to reach a consensus, these three…

years ago. Genocides are still taking place today but we have to remember the ones that have happened. Millions of innocent Armenians died. Today we commemorate this genocide with Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on April 24. This is observed in Armenia and the Nagoro-Karabakh Republic. Remember those who have…

In the past hundred of years many genocide atrocities have occurred, taking a toll on human lives, and influencing the history of countries worldwide. The Armenian Genocide and Cambodian Genocide occurred at two very different times, but there are connections between the two that make them comparable. The Armenian Genocide beginning on April 24, 1915 was under the rule of the Young Turks, who wanted to to turkify the Ottoman Empire, by ridding it of any Non- Turks, especially those of whom were…

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 starting with one realm then onto the next. Amid the fifteenth century, Armenia was consumed into the Ottoman Empire. The rulers of the Ottoman Empire were muslim and highly prejudiced against non-muslims and considered them to be second-class citizens. Non-muslims, such as the Armenians who were Christian, were…

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 that the Ottoman Empire…