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A group of Armenian citizens in the Ottoman Empire.

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A group of Armenian citizens in the Ottoman Empire.

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The Armenian Genocide is impacting the lives of people today because some governments still do not acknowledge it as a genocide, and many people have lost their loved ones in this genocide. (Evidence + Explanation 3)

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The Armenian Genocide is impacting the lives of people today because some governments still do not acknowledge it as a genocide, and many people have lost their loved ones in this genocide. (Evidence + Explanation 3)

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The Newsela Article "The Armenian Genocide, 1915" claims, "Today, Turkey is an important ally of the U.S. and other Western nations, and so their governments have likewise been reluctant to condemn the long-ago killings. American news outlets had also been reluctant to use the word “genocide” to describe Turkey’s crimes. The phrase “Armenian genocide” did not appear in the New York Times until 2004." Many western countries still do not recognize it as a genocide, and that offends and upsets many Armenians living in these nations

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The Armenian Genocide is impacting the lives of people today because some governments still do not acknowledge it as a genocide, and many people have lost their loved ones in this genocide. (Evidence + Explanation 2)

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The Armenian Genocide is impacting the lives of people today because some governments still do not acknowledge it as a genocide, and many people have lost their loved ones in this genocide. (Evidence + Explanation 2)

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The Britannica Article on the Armenian Genocide established that,"By the end of the war, more than 90 percent of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were gone, and many traces of their former presence had been erased." These Armenians had friends and family, and the relatives of those who lost loved ones to the genocide are still grieving.

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The Armenian Genocide is impacting the lives of people today because some governments still do not acknowledge it as a genocide, and many people have lost their loved ones in this genocide. (Evidence + Explanation 1) 

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The Armenian Genocide is impacting the lives of people today because some governments still do not acknowledge it as a genocide, and many people have lost their loved ones in this genocide. (Evidence + Explanation 1) 

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The book "The Armenian Genocide" reports, "The present-day position of the Turkish government is that it did not commit genocide. Instead, it claims it undertook necessary security measures in a time of war" Although historians agree that the Turkish government did commit genocide, the Turkish government stands by the idea that it was only protecting itself, which has upset many Armenians.

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The Turkish government used mass deportations and killings to virtually erase the Armenian people and their history. (Evidence + Explanation 3)

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The Turkish government used mass deportations and killings to virtually erase the Armenian people and their history. (Evidence + Explanation 3)

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The Britannica article on the Armenian Genocide states, "Throughout summer and autumn of 1915, Armenian civilians were removed from their homes and marched through the valleys and mountains of Eastern Anatolia toward desert concentration camps. The deportation, which was overseen by civil and military officials, was accompanied by a systematic campaign of mass murder carried out by irregular forces as well as by local Kurds and Caucasians. Survivors who reached the deserts of Syria languished in concentration camps, many starved to death, and massacres continued into 1916. Conservative estimates have calculated that some 600,000 to more than 1,000,000 Armenians were slaughtered or died on the marches." This passage shows how horrifyingly successful these mass deportations were in getting rid of so many Armenians.

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The Turkish government used mass deportations and killings to virtually erase the Armenian people and their history. (Evidence + Explanation 2)

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The Turkish government used mass deportations and killings to virtually erase the Armenian people and their history. (Evidence + Explanation 2)

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The book "The Armenian Genocide" also wrote, "From 1894 to 1896, constant attacks against Armenians were carried out by Kurds armed by the Ottoman government. These actions were designed to keep the Armenians in line and to discourage them from attempting to adopt the European and American ideas of equality and freedom. Armenians property and businesses were taken from them, and dozens of villages were burned." By killing the Armenian people, they also killed the ideas of liberty in the minds of those still alive. This helped to erase their history.

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The Turkish government used mass deportations and killings to virtually erase the Armenian people and their history. (Evidence + Explanation 1)

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The Turkish government used mass deportations and killings to virtually erase the Armenian people and their history. (Evidence + Explanation 1)

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The book "The Armenian Genocide" has a quote from a Turkish civilian that stated. "The exiles will have to traverse on foot a distance that involved one or two months marching, and sometimes even more, before they reach the particular corner of the desert assigned to them for their habitation, and destined to become their tomb. We hear, in fact, that the course of their route and the stream of the Euphrates are littered wit the corpses of exiles, while those who survive and doomed to certain death, since they will find in the desert neither house, nor work, nor food. It is simply a scheme for exterminating the Armenian nation wholesale, without any fuss." This quote shows the extent that the Turkish government would go to to get rid of the Armenians, and how effective it was.

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New York Times Article, Published December 15, 1915

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New York Times Article, Published December 15, 1915

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What was happening around the world while the genocide was happening?

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What was happening around the world while the genocide was happening?

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Most of the world was involved in World War I at the time, including the Ottoman Empire. The Turks sided wit the Central Powers during this war. During this time, the United States also acquired the Virgin Islands.

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The United States did not do much to help the Armenians during the genocide. American missionaries did spend some time in Turkey, and told the Armenian people about the American values of Liberty and Equality. This did not end up helping the Armenians though, as they were murdered in the Hamidian Massacres to prevent ideas like this from spreading and giving the people hope.
The United States reaction to the genocideonce they learned of it was generally horror and disgust. The government was slow to help.

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The Turkish Government planned and carried out the mass killings and deportations against the Armenians. Pictured: Enver Pasha, the man who planned the Armenian Deportations.

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The Armenian people were heavily discriminated against in the Ottoman Empire, mostly because they were Christian, and the country's leaders were Muslim.

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The Armenian Genocide Background Knowledge

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The Armenian Genocide Background Knowledge

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The Armenian Genocide was a genocide against the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire from around 1915 to 1918, but the Turkish government had been discriminating against the Armenians for much longer. The Turkish government called the Young Turks had come to power in a rebellion, they ruled the Ottoman Empire. They wanted to "turkify" the empire, and they saw the Christian Armenians as a threat. The government used mass killings and deportations, and by the time it was over they had managed  to erase over one million Armenian people.