plan of ethnic cleansing was implemented against the minority Christian Armenian populations in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian Genocide took the lives of upwards of a million people, many of which left behind numerous children and loved ones. Why is it that intellectuals and individuals so often refer to the Armenian Genocide as the forgotten genocide? The reason that this phrase has been attributed to the Armenian Genocide is because of the conditions that have existed in Turkey in the one hundred
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Armenian Genocides Prashanth P. Samuel Professor Hicks History 116 The Ottoman Empire was a very powerful and influential force in the world during the early 19th century. As the empire was predominantly of Turkish decent, other minority groups started growing within the empire. Eventually it came to a period where the Ottoman Empire felt these minority groups such as the Armenians, Greeks, as well as the Assyrians were becoming to strong and felt they were threating the empire therefore they
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Empire had many Armenian people be sent to their deaths, “In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. The Ottoman rulers, like most of their subjects, were Muslim. They permitted religious minorities like the Armenians to maintain some autonomy, but they also subjected Armenians, who they viewed
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Evil in the World Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech “The Perils of Indifference”, argues that indifference is a punishment to the victims and dangerous to the world because the “lines blur” between “good and evil.” He supports his claim by first stating what indifference is which is when the “lines blur” between right and wrong, then Wiesel questions indifference and how someone could possibly see it as a “virtue.” Finally, he explains how indifference could seem easier to some even though
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long ago and has been forgotten by the world, and that is the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1923. Millions were killed by a campaign of deportation and mass killings by the Young Turk government. The controversy is that
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The Promise is based on a historical event that underlies the horrific truth of the Armenian genocide. The movie takes place in a small Armenian village where Mikael an apothecary wants to get into medical school. Mikael travels to Constantinople to attend the medical school academy. He meets Emre son of a high level Turkish official and tries to befriend him to escape death and save himself. After Erme tried helping Mikael find his family he got in deep trouble for it and was sent to prove himself
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A powerful way in which Turkey denies the genocide lies in their restricted access to archives. There is also controversy involving the degree to which the ones available can be trusted because of the possibility of them being tampered with. In his work The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, Taner Akçam evaluates powerful evidence proving that the Ottoman documents have been “cleansed” intentionally in order to shadow mistakes.
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References Ziemer, U. (2009). Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location: Armenian Youth Cultural Identities in Southern Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 61(3), 409-433. doi:10.1080/09668130902753283 References Papazian, T. (2006). From Ter-Petrossian to Kocharian: Explaining Continuity in Armenian Foreign Policy, 1991-2003. Demokratizatsiya, 14(2), 235-251. References Tonoyan, A. (2010). Rising Armenian-Georgian Tensions and the Possibility of a New Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus
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Vahan Kenderian is a twelve year old kid from a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. His life changes for the worse when his older brothers start suspecting something when their dad and uncle are taken away by Turkish police. They knew that a few years ago there was an Armenian massacre and they worry it is about to happen again. People are taken from their homes, several men are killed and women beaten. Vahan then has to watch as his older brothers are shot right in front of him. Vahan is not killed
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empire be considered a genocide or a civil war? The Armenian genocide took place from the year 1915 – 1918 during which the Armenians in the ottoman empire were killed. The events of the massacre fit the definition of a genocide and also follow all 8 stages of a genocide. Victims were classified, targeted and killed. The Armenians were targeted by the Muslims and the Turkish government. However, the current and previous Turkish government still deny that the event was a genocide and refuse to label
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