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Title: Armenian Genocide


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Armenian Genocide
  • The Armenian Genocide was carried out by the
    "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire in
    1915-1916 (with subsidiaries to 1922-23). One and
    a half million Armenians were killed, out of a
    total of two and a half million Armenians in the
    Ottoman Empire.

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  • Armenians all over the world commemorate this
    great tragedy on April 24, because it was on that
    day in 1915 when 300 Armenian leaders, writers,
    thinkers and professionals in Constantinople
    (present day Istanbul) were rounded up, deported
    and killed. Also on that day in Constantinople,
    5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in
    the streets and in their homes.

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  • The Armenian Genocide occurred in a systematic
    fashion, which proves that it was directed by the
    Young Turk government.
  • First the Armenians in the army were disarmed,
    placed into labor battalions, and then killed.
  • Then the Armenian political and intellectual
    leaders were rounded up on April 24, 1915, and
    then killed.
  • Finally, the remaining Armenians were called from
    their homes, told they would be relocated, and
    then marched off to concentration camps in the
    desert between Jerablus and Deir ez-Zor where
    they would starved to death or die of thirst in
    the burning sun. On the march, often they would
    be denied food and water, and many were
    brutalized and killed by their "guards" or by
    "marauders." The authorities in Trebizond, on the
    Black Sea coast, did vary this routine they
    loaded Armenians on barges and sank them out at
    sea.

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The Turkish government today denies that there
was an Armenian genocide and claims that
Armenians were only removed from the eastern "war
zone." The Armenian Genocide, however, occurred
all over Anatolia present-day Turkey, and not
just in the so-called "war zone."
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The Armenian genocide is similar to the Jewish
holocaust in many respects. Both people adhere to
an ancient religion. Both were religious
minorities of their respective states. Both have
a history of persecution. Both have new
democracies. Both are surrounded by enemies. Both
are talented and creative minorities who have
been persecuted out of envy and obscurantism.
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Questions
  • 1) How was this a form of nationalism?
  • 2) Why does the Turkish government continue to
    deny that this happened?
  • 3) If this had been a wide known event at the
    time, how could it have prevented future
    genocides?
  • 4) List 3 facts of the Armenian Genocide
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