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Bechtel, Susannah. "The Armenian Genocide: 100 Years Later." The Choices Program, www.choices.edu/2015/04/21/the-armenian-genocide-100-years-later/. Accessed 5 May 2020.

Suny, Ronald Grigor. "Armenian Genocide." Encyclopædia Britannica, www.britannica.com/event/Armenian-Genocide/Genocide#ref329552. Accessed 5 May 2020.

Tolbert, David. "The Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of Denial (And Why It's in Turkey's Interest to End It)." International Center for Transitional Justice, www.ictj.org/news/armenian-genocide-100-years-denial. Accessed 5 May 2020.

"Truth & Justice for the Armenian Genocide." Armenian National Committee of America, cqrcengage.com/anca/genocide. Accessed 5 May 2020.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): Overview." Encyclopedia, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-overview. Accessed 5 May 2020.

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The Armenian genocide was one of the deadliest mass killings of all time. But to this very day, no one has taken a step forward and openly admitted the honest truth. Unfortunately, “Turkey has steadily refused to recognize that the events of 1915–16 constitute a genocide” (Suny 18). Besides from not confessing the truth, they also continue “ to enforce a gag-rule against truthful U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide”(Truth & Justice for the Armenian Genocide 1). This polity makes it impossible to debate or discuss this tragic event, preventing the truth from ever coming out. “Despite a mountain of evidence” Turkey does not plan to ever come to terms with the real truth about the Armenian genocide (Tolbert 5). In fact, in 2015 a Turkish government official stated, “Whatever decision the European Parliament takes on Armenian genocide claims, it will go in one ear and out the other” (Bechtel 7). This extreme denial of the genocide does nothing but prove that the event did in fact take place as if there was truly nothing wrong they would not make such claims. Due to Turkey’s foolishness, the nearly 1.5 million Armenians who were massacred have yet to receive justice to this day.

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The Armenian Genocide, one of the gnarliest events in human history, had a handful of horrifying effects. This mass killing caused whole family names to die out and the overall Armenian population significantly decreased. For starters, “more than 90 percent of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were gone” by the end of the war and genocide (Suny 4). It is no secret that the vast majority of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time had their human rights violated and ended up being terminated. In fact, “as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill-treatment, exposure, and starvation (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1). Next, the few “surviving women and children” who were not killed or deported, “were often forced to give up their Armenian identities and convert to Islam” (Suny 4). The Turks even stripped them from their beliefs and religion. Lastly, the unique and historic Armenian homeland in Turkey was abandoned and eventually destroyed as the land became a place for refugees to flee (Suny 4). Undoubtedly, the Armenian Genocide had unforgettable gloomy effects on the Armenian population, Turkey, and the entire world.

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Kifner, John. "Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview." The New York Times, 2007, archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html?mcubz=3.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. "The Armenian Genocide (1915-1916): In Depth." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-in-depth.

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The Ottomans surrendered in 1918 causing the Young Turks to get out and go to Germany. The Allied powers in Great Britain, Russia, and France said Young Turks have committed crimes (Armenian-Genocide.org). For example, an excerpt from a primary source in a telegram sent by the department of State in Washington states, “In view of these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilization the Allied governments announce publicly to the Sublime Porte that they will hold personally responsible these crimes all members of the Ottoman government and those of their agents who are implicated in such massacres.” The allied powers knew that the Young Turks were doing the awful things and that they needed to try and help. After the war the Ottoman government prosecuted Young Turks for their crimes (Armenian-Genocide.org). Although Turkey knowing the actions they did, they did not believe that what they were doing was a genocide and that it was because the Armenians were dangerous.

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Death totals and population of Armenians

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History.com Editors. "Armenian Genocide." History, A&E Television

Networks, 1 Oct. 2010, www.history.com/topics/world-war

i/armenian-genocide. Accessed 7 May 2020.

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Adalian, Rouben Paul. "Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide." Armenian-genocide.org, www.armenian-genocide.org/young_turks.html. Accessed 7 May 2020.

Kifner, John. "Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview." The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html?mcubz=3. Accessed 7 May 2020.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (1915-16): IN DEPTH." Holocaust Encyclopedia, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-in-depth. Accessed 7 May 2020.

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The Muslim’s motive was anti-Armenian Sentiment, Turkification, and Islamization. “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 as “infidels,” to unequal and unjust treatment. Christians had to pay higher taxes than Muslims, for example, and they had very few political and legal rights. In spite of these obstacles, the Armenian community thrived under Ottoman rule. They tended to be better educated and wealthier than their Turkish neighbors, who in turn grew to resent their success” (History). The Ottoman Empire, being predominantly Muslim did not like the fact that Armenia was a very Christian country. Christians were treated very unfairly and had very few political and legal rights, such as having to pay higher taxes. Despite the fact that they were treated unfairly and given fewer rights than Muslims, the Armenians seemed to thrive in the Ottoman Empire and tended to be more wealthy and educated than their Muslim neighbors. A Turkish Sultan named Abdul Hamid II said, “I will soon settle those Armenians,” he told a reporter in 1890. “I will give them a box on the ear which will make them…relinquish their revolutionary ambitions.” (History). The Armenians tried to retaliate by protesting, but that would only backfire. The large protests only hurt the Armenians. “In response to large scale protests by Armenians, Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered” (History).

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About 1.5 million people were killed, states, John Kifner from the New York Times (Kifner). There were 2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire before the genocide and in 1922 there were only about 400,000 left (Kifner).  These numbers are extraordinary and show how Armenian Christians were targeted. The Armenians were being killed in very cruel ways. For example, , “From 1915-16, the Ottomans killed large numbers of people in mass shootings; many others died during mass deportations due to starvation, dehydration, exposure, and disease.” (encyclopedia.ushmm.org). They were being tortured and suffering over these long years. To add on, "Tens of thousands of Armenian children were forcibly removed from their families and converted to Islam” (encyclopedia.ushmm.org). Even children were being slaughtered and going through these horrible conditions. This mass genocide was a horrible time for the Armenians and one of the worst ever genocides in the world.

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The leaders of the Genocide arrested and killed a couple hundred Armenian intellectuals. But soon after, they started arresting anyone who was Armenian. They sent them on death marches in which they had no food or water. If one decided to take a break during the walk they would be shot immediately. They then created a special group “‘to carry out, as one officer put it, “the liquidation of the Christian elements.’” (Armenian Genocide). It was hard to stop the Genocide, becase it was going on durign WWI and the government was leading the genocide, so it was going to be nearly impossible for the people of The Ottoman empire to take over and stop what was going on. Also, many countries had to worry about their own fighting because it was during WWI. So they finally stopped once they surrendered in WWI and the leaders fled the country.

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The Armenian Genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire in , in April 24th, 1915 - 1917.

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The perpetrators were the  “young Turks”

The victims were the Armenian Christian people who lived in the ottoman empire, the Armenian population of Anatolia

The Three Pashas: Enver Pasha, Talaat Pasha, Behaeddin Shakir

Armenian christians was a very marked ethinic group in the Ottoman empire. Some of them formed political organizations trying to strengthen there power. On October 17, 1895 some of the Armenian Christians, took control over the National Bank in Constantinople. They threatened to blow the whole thing up if they where not given Armenian regional autonomy. Also, during WWI when the Ottoman Empire lost its first battle, they blamed the Armenians for siding with Russia and sabotaging them, so this led to the start of the genocide.

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On April 24, 1915, the Genocide inevitably started. The Turkish Government took the Armenians and killed hundreds that day. Then the people were taken out of their home and sent on death marches where they would have to walk in super hot and dry conditions with no food or water. This would eventually kill them and if they took a rest they would be shot on the spot. Young Turks made organizations that would kill Armenians and get rid of Christianity. History.com even states, “They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them, and burned them alive” (History.com). The Young Turks were extremely harsh and cruel to innocent people.

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First stage was when the Armenians were protesting and got massacred. This was between 1894 and 1896. Hundred of thousands of Armenians were killed at this event. The next stage was when the Young Turks took over and then hated the Armenians thinking they were dangerous to their country. The Ottoman Empire entered WW1 and the Armenians were traitors going into the Russian army. The Turks then got rid of the Armenians from being on the war front.