The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the terribly savage maltreatment of the Armenian people by the Ottoman empire and the latter CUP. The armenian people were unjustly exploited at the time when the world was upheaved in chaos due to world war one. The Ottoman empire which was once diverse with it’s multi ethnic and religious population was replaced by a nation state ideology fronted by the desire to obtain a monoethnic and mono-religious society. The new government in power known as the Committee of union and progress (CUP) or the Young Turk party delved into the most heinous means of obtaining their goal for a singular society by targeting and eliminating minorities who diverged from their ideology, in particular their vulnerable armenian …show more content…
Had they not pushed for turkification and assimilation by any means necessary; 1.5 million armenians would not have perished. Their government’s insistent need for national singularity further ignited their people's racism and hatred toward those who were different from them. A once civil territory was engulfed with unnecessary violence and discrimination perpetrated by their own leaders. Had they adopted a more democratic and liberal approach to their governance thousands of lives would have been saved. The lack of foreign policy and diplomacy also played a part in the terrible events that occurred. Had a treaty been implemented before world war I: enforcing the ottoman empire to protect and reform its treatment of its minorities, perhaps the genocide could have been avoided. Instead they argued over their own national interests leaving the armenians to the whims of their victimizers. Its also sad to know that the genocide isn’t internationally recognized even today, out of fear …show more content…
But in the wake of this victory entire armenian communities were massacred by ottoman authorities. Due the devastation, Nerses and his missionary insisted the russians to included a clause in their treaty with the empire; that would allow armenians to be self governed. The russians agreed only to flat out rejected by the ottomans during negations. Instead they agreed on implementing reforms under the condition russia withdraws. It was the very first european diplomacy implementation for the Armenians. However britain fearing russia’s growing influence contested the clause and instead called for the berlin treaty which took russia out of the picture entirely leaving the armenians vulnerable without any true backing once