What are some facts about the Armenian Genocide?

Answer 1

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.
Most Armenians in America are children or grandchildren of the survivors, although there are still many survivors amongst us.

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. 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.

The Armenian Genocide was masterminded by the Central Committee of the Young Turk Party (Committee for Union and Progress [Ittihad ve Terakki Cemiyet, in Turkish]) which was dominated by Mehmed Talât [Pasha], Ismail Enver [Pasha], and Ahmed Djemal [Pasha]. They were a racist group whose ideology was articulated by Zia Gökalp, Dr. Mehmed Nazim, and Dr. Behaeddin Shakir.
The Armenian Genocide was directed by a Special Organization (Teshkilati Mahsusa) set up by the Committee of Union and Progress, which created special "butcher battalions," made up of violent criminals released from prison.

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." Deportations and killings occurred in the west, in and around Ismid (Izmit) and Broussa (Bursa); in the center, in and around Angora (Ankara); in the south-west, in and around Konia (Konya) and Adana (which is near the Mediterranean Sea); in the central portion of Anatolia, in and around Diyarbekir (Diyarbakir), Harpout (Harput), Marash, Sivas (Sepastia), Shabin Kara-Hissar (þebin Karahisar), and Ourfa (Urfa); and on the Black Sea coast, in and around Trebizond (Trabzon), all of which are not part of a war zone. Only Erzeroum, Bitlis, and Van in the east were in the war zone.

The Armenian Genocide was condemned at the time by representatives of the British, French, Russian, German, and Austrian governments—namely all the major Powers. The first three were foes of the Ottoman Empire, the latter two, allies of the Ottoman Empire. The United States, neutral towards the Ottoman Empire, also condemned the Armenian Genocide and was the chief spokesman in behalf of the Armenians.

The American people, via local Protestant missionaries, did the most to save the wretched remnants of the death marches, the orphaned children.

Henry Morgenthau Sr., the neutral American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent a cable to the U.S. State Department in 1915:

"Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses [sic] it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion."

Answer 2

Justin McCarthy, a professor of history at the University of Louisville:

The plan of the Armenian Nationalists has not changed in more than 100 years. It is to create an Armenia in Eastern Anatolia and the Southern Caucasus, regardless of the wishes of the people who live there. The Armenian Nationalists have made their plan quite clear. First, the Turkish Republic is to state that there was an "Armenian Genocide" and to apologize for it. Second, the Turks are to pay reparations. Third, an Armenian state is to be created.
If the Armenians were to be given what they claim, and if every Armenian in the world were to come to Eastern Anatolia, their numbers would still be only half of the number of those Turkish citizens who live there now. Of course, the Armenians of California, Massachusetts, and France would never come in great numbers to Eastern Anatolia. The population of the new "Armenia" would be less than one-fourth Armenian at best. Could such a state long exist? Yes, it could exist, but only if the Turks were expelled. That was the policy of the Armenian Nationalists in 1915. It would be their policy tomorrow.
We should be very clear on Armenian claims. Their claims are not based on history, because Armenians have not ruled in Eastern Anatolia for more than 900 years. Their claims are not based on culture: Before the revolutionaries and the Russians destroyed all peace, the Armenians and Turks shared the same culture. Armenians were integrated into the Ottoman system, and most of the Armenians spoke Turkish. They ate the same food as the Turks, shared the same music, and lived in the same sorts of houses. The Armenian claims are surely not based on a belief in democracy: Armenians have not been a majority in Eastern Anatolia for centuries, and they would be a small minority there now. Their claims are based on their nationalist ideology. That ideology is unchanging. It was the same in 1895 and 1915 as it is in 2005. They believe there should be an "Armenia" in Eastern Turkey-no matter the history, no matter the rights of the people who live there.
History teaches that the Armenian Nationalists will not stop their claims if the Turks forget the truth and say there was an Armenian Genocide. They will not cease to claim Erzurum and Van because the Turks have apologized for a crime they did not commit. No. They will increase their efforts. They will say, "The Turks have admitted they did it. Now they must pay for their crimes." The same critics who now say the Turks should admit genocide will say the Turks should pay reparations. Then they will demand the Turks give Erzurum and Van and Elazig and Sivas and Bitlis and Trabzon to Armenia.
I know the Turks will not give in to this pressure. The Turks will not submit, because they know that to do so would simply be wrong. How can it be right to become a member of an organization that demands you lie as the price of admission? Would any honest man join an organization that said, "You can only join us if you first falsely say that your father was a murderer?"
I hope and trust that the European Union will reject the demands of the Armenian Nationalists. I hope they will realize that the Armenian Nationalists are not concerned with what is best for Europe. But whatever the European Union demands, I have faith in the honor of the Turks. What I know of the Turks tells me that they will never falsely say there was an Armenian Genocide. I have faith in the honesty of the Turks. I know that the Turks will resist demands to confess to a crime they did not commit, no matter the price of honesty. I have faith in the integrity of the Turks. I know that the Turks will not lie about this history. I know that the Turks will never say their fathers were murderers. I have that faith in the Turks.

Answer 3

The word genocide means The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. Did Turks did it, No. Did Armenians die, Yes. But how and why? Many armenians died that is true; but it was just after they were done killing, raping and torturing Turkish and Kurdish people with the power they took from the Russians who invaded North east part of Ottoman Empire. After Russians were kicked out, the armenians who betrayed their own country were forced to live by government, but the other peoples who were murdered raped and tortured wanted their revenge and unleashed their wrath upon the leaving armenians; so it was not the government who did it, if anything they tried to protect the armenians. It was the other comman peoples who were also citizen of Ottoman Empire. so it is not genocide it is a civil war and armenians started it. There are still mass graveyards being found in the eastern Turkey that are done by renegade armenians of the time. In Turkey, people do SPEAK and ACCEPT that armenians died but it was not done by the government and also the regular people know that armenians asked for it. And if you look for the explanations of actual "HISTORIANS" they also accept that fact not the ones accepted by lobbied "politicians" of the world.

Answer 4

Turkish government offered Armenian government to establish an international committee in UN.

The Turkish government said that both governments should make all resources, historical documents available for this committee and this committee should be free to research in both countries and both countries should accept the decision and be liable to the final result.

Armenian government rejected it.

The European Parliament sent the Armenian president a letter, urging him to support the Turkish request. Probably they rejected again because I never heard about a EU, UN or any other international committee working on it yet.

Armenia continues to make propaganda against Tukey, says that there are lots of proofs, documents etc. but do not accept establishing an international committee which can finally come out with certain results. If you are so sure, why to hide then ?

The claimed genocide was in a time of a civil war that Armenians, Azeris, Turks and Kurds involved. Turkey accepts that thousands of Armenians was killed by Turkish gangs, militas but thousands of Azeris, Kurds and Turks were killed by Armenians also in the same period. So it is not so easy to name it as a genocide.

It is same every where, my friend. The actual history and national history that tought in schools,family etc. is different in every country. If you are an Armenian, may be it is time for you to check other side of the story. For instance, you may start with the Azeris killed by Armenians.

You are lucky that you have a government which have strong lobby activities in other countries, means to reach international media. Armenia is capable of making enough noise about genocide claims and trying to make the world feel pity about them. On the other hand, claims of Azeirs about mass killings and international human rights crimes that done by Armenia cannot find any audience in the world today.

The claimed armenian genocide was almost a century ago. The claimed first Azeri genocide was almost a century ago, and then again and then again. Today there are still thousands of refugees because of the conflict between Azerbaycan and Armenia. Why don't you focus on your existing problem first because of which thousands of families is still suffering ????

Answer 5

There is no fact because there is no genocide. You should first learn what genocide means. You should buy a dictionary first. I think you are related with the armenian terrorists who tries to damage the respect of Turkish government. Don't make propaganda without any strong basis. The world is saturated enough with the lies of armenians. You should speak to your mother and father (if you know them) to learn the truth. Don't corrupt the world anymore!!!

Answer 6

My little girl,

I am an Armenian too. First, ther isn't any "genocide". Second, buy a dictionary. Third, go to a library and read or ask your parents to learn the truth. I can repeat it for you: We cheated the Turks at the WWI and they revenged. Thats so simple. Yes, I am an Armenian but not a liar one.
Please don't try to damage the relationship between us and the Turks anymore.

Answer 7

Few people understand the true reason for which the Armenian Genocide happened. The most common (and mistaken) belief is that the motivation was Turkish nationalism. The promulgation of that incorrect view is largely the work of the Jews, upon whose ethnic relations most of the blame really does fall.

Because the Armenian Genocide was prompted, not by Turkish nationalism, but by the financial interests of a Jewish banking family, the Rothschilds. Although Turkish nationalism made things easier for the Rothschilds to manipulate the situation, and whereas a certain amount of ethnic strife preceded 1915, it was the meddling of these Jewish bankers that caused the genocide itself.

The Rothschilds owned (since 1884) the The Caspian and Black Sea Petroleum Company, which extracted oil from fields near Baku, in Azerbaijan, and shipped it over the Caucasus by rail to Batumi in FSR Georgia, thence by sea via the Dardanelles to their refinery in Fiume (a port city now called Rijeka) on the Adriatic. The products, including kerosene, were then sold throughout central Europe in competition with similar products sold by the Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil company. The Rothschilds wanted to eliminate ethnic conflict along the trade route, and since the Armenians were the weakest party in those conflicts, the cheapest way for the Rothschilds to get what they wanted was to eliminate the Armenians.

There is a photograph taken by a German officer in 1915 showing a row of young women who had been hanged upon crosses in mockery of the Crucifixion of Jesus because they had refused to convert to Islam. Many of the Young Turks’ “infantry” were, indeed, Muslims. But Jews were directing the campaign.

In conventional history, subject matter that is considered by the Jews to be sensitive may be presented in a way that is either almost accurate but nowhere near complete, or else it is reasonably complete but nowhere near accurate. Or it might be neither complete nor accurate, but rather an intentionally deceptive fabrication.

It is so with the common account of the instigators of the Armenian Genocide: the "Young Turks." What the historical narratives commonly omit is that the Young Turks were founded by a Jew who grew up in Italy, Emmanuel Curasso. Curasso set up the Young Turks as a secret society in the 1890s, beginning in Salonika, Macedonia. Most of the Young Turks, and virtually all of their leadership, were Jews.

This isn't really uncommon. The Jews have learned many tricks of political deception. They will go so far as to set up their own opposition, and, attributing its membership to other ethnicities—e.g. Muslims, Christians, racists—will later condemn these other groups for deeds that they, themselves, committed. Most of the time, the corrupted version of history goes into the school textbooks unchallenged.

(For a trivial example, see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5UfnhuF_c.)

Assisting the Rothschilds wasn’t the Young Turks’ only purpose. They also wanted to undermine Sultan Mehmed in order to facilitate the theft of Palestine by Zionist Jews.

Many of the Jews among the Young Turks adopted nom de guerre. For example, the real name of the Young Turk writer known as "Tekin Alp" was Moishe Cohen. Also, the editor-in-chief of the Young Turks’ main newspaper, The Young Turk, was Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, a Zionist Jew who worked as a journalist in Italy during the 1890s and lived in Odessa prior to the Armenian Genocide.

So, really, the blame for the deaths of 1.5 million Christian Armenians doesn't belong to any sort of nationalism. It belongs to greedy Jews who wanted their oil business to enjoy increased profits.

Answer 8

"Trust a snake before a Jew; trust a Jew before a Greek; but never trust an Armenian"

Armenians are the sneakiest people around the world. They are mostly liars and they want to take advantages with this dirty propaganda. Don't trust them

Answer 9

This Armenian tale is very tall.