PLEASE ANSWER!! armenian genocide!?

Question

I want to see how many people actually know about the Armenian genocide and how many people actually know what happened and how many people, not just Armenians, but also Greeks, and others were killed.

so be honest. do you know what it is/ what happened.

Answer 1

As an Armenian, i've constantly been exposed to what the Turks did 92 years ago.. But even though we've made a lot of noise about it, a lot of people have never even heard of it.. (especially the people in Middle America.. where there aren't as many Armenians)..
But to say that it was war, is crazy. Armenians were discriminated against for hundreds of years. About 30 years before the genocide, the Turkish govt. suddenly had a spurge of nationalism, and killed 200,000 Armenians. The only reason their relations were “peaceful” was because Armenians withstood all that they did. When the Young Turks came into power, the Armenian public renewed their hopes about the empire they had come to call their home... The young Turks however, soon proved themselves to be more hateful than the older govt.
What oo yeah is referring to, is the fact that SOME Armenians joined the Russian forces against Turkey... (What their government doesn't tell them, is how many Armenians served on their armed forces. ) The measures they decided to take in response to those that "sided with the enemy" ... was killing 1.5 Armenians.
It wasn't deliberate my ***... You don't send millions of people through the desert without food and water and say it was "relocation"... During the "relocation" march, women were raped, children were brutally murdered, ppl were starved, whipped, shot, and tortured.
Armenians were a minority. They were a big minority, but they were nonetheless a minority. Kozan, How could they have killed as many ppl, when they weren’t allowed to have weapons? Despite everything, many Armenians were still loyal to the Ottoman Empire. It wasn’t war.. it was genocide…
If it was a war, this war would be mentioned in turkish curriculum in schools… In reality, many turks never heard of anything of the kind… there were terrorist organizations on both sides…
Case ad point: Hrant Dink’s murder

Answer 2

Armenians betrayed Ottoman Empire by cooperating with Czardom Russia to occupy the east of Anatolia. Armenians attacked Turkish villages and slaughtered a lot of innocent people. However, there was no Armenian genocide. Armenians were transferred to Syria to stop their attacks.

http://www.armenianreality.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=1&Itemid=13

http://www.armenian-genocide-lie.com/

http://realgenocide.blogcu.com/4570452/

http://www.zerbaijan.com/azeri/genocide_quotes.htm

http://www.euro-caspian.com/azeri_genocide.htm

http://www.khojaly.org.az:8101/

http://www.usakgundem.com/uayazar.php?id=673

On the other hand, I do not claim that there were no deaths, but the only reasons for those deaths were due to lack of supplies, contagious and other diseases, from which the Turks, suffered.

It was something all the citizens of empire suffer from, including the Turks. For example, 90 thousands Turkish soldiers died in Sarıkamış because the Turks did not have the sufficient supplies either. Furthermore, the ones who caused those soldiers died were Armenians inasmuch as they back stepped the empire and supported Chazdom Russia, who those soldiers went to fight against to protect their country.

You can ask why there are not many historians telling the truth? The answer is during a 16 year period from 1973 to 1986, various Armenian terrorist organizations claimed responsibility for about 200 attacks on Turkish diplomatic and non-diplomatic institutions and murdered 55 Turkish and 16 non-Turkish people including the Turkish Consul General and the Attache in Sydney in 1980 and wounded hundreds of others. Almost all the Western historians who deny the alleged Armenian genocide have been subjected to death threats by the Armenians. A Scottish-American judge Sam E. Weems has received more than a thousand death threats since he published his book "Secrets of a Christian Terrorist State: Armenia" in July 2002. I mean no one wants to be threatened.

http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/yayinlar/yayin3/atrocity.htm

http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/

http://www.eraren.org/index.php?Page=GBultenDetay&BultenNo=10902

Answer 3

Yes, they shouldn't hide those pages of their history that they don't like. More than 1.5 million people were killed, many have left their homes, they have left the land which they were living there for thousands of years, this is what just happened in 1915, let alone what was going on before that ( during sultan abdolhamid II ). And they say those have never happened... They ( government ) should stop telling lies to their people and children. They should stop the discriminations against ethnic minorities in Turkey. The government is a supporter of racism against non-Turks, specially against Armenians. They don't even let TURKISH writers to talk about that. There is even lots of discrimination against Kurds, they were even once saying that there isn't anything named Kurd!!! ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS EXIST BECAUSE THEY ARE RACIST.

Answer 4

very complex situation/question

I've had Armenian friends since school days [over 50 years now]. some of their parents escaped Turkey at the time and I heard a few stories from actual experience.

oddly, the displacements and murders only occurred in some parts of Turkey and her possessions. Armenians who fled to what is now Syria were safe. Armenians in the major Turkish cities, including Istanbul, were apparently also safe.

Fear in the Turkish countryside was that the Armenians were aiding the forces of the Tsar and his Armenians who lived in Russian territory. I do not know whether this began while World War I was underway, before, or after -- and the Ottomans and Tsars had fought for several hundred years by then (with the Tsars, on balance, winning.)

Rumor says that the deportations, murders, lootings, etc. were mostly carried out by Kurds in the employ of Turks.

I do not know whether those Turks were the central government, a regional governor or governors, or simply part of the then Ottoman army.

Answer 5

Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, all native Christians were killed.

Answer 6

Hello,
Here in Greece we know about the Armenian Genocide, meaning the killing of Innocent Armenians that was commited in purpose by the Turkish Government during 1914-1922.
The most effective way of achieving it was the EXSILE of thousands of Armenians in the deserts and mountains in East Anatolia. They were led by Turkish officers and then left alone in the rock mountains, so most of Armenian families didn't manage to survive (rate about 1 to 1000 survived from this exsile!).
This is what I know, and also in 1918 -is it right?- Turks were chasing Armenians in Istanbul and slaughtered most of them.

Answer 7

Yes, I know about it.

Dr. Taner Akcam (a Turkish historian) explains perfectly in this clip:

Armenian Genocide: 1900's-1920

The land in question, was the last piece of land in the hands of the Turkish rulers, which they taught they were going to lose. First, the Serbs got their independence from the Ottoman Empire, then the Greeks, and the Bulgarians, and the Romanians..and slowly, the empire was decreasing.

The Turkish rulers thought they were going to lose their land to the Armenians as well (since the Armenians were asking for independence and equal rights with Muslims). Therefore, to rescue the Ottoman Empire, they had to "Homogenize" the population of Anatolia. Therefore, they implemented the deportation and killings of all Christian people from Anatolia.

Scroll 1:25

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xncQKCEQI

Answer 8

This denial has been sustained by deliberate propaganda, lying and cover ups, forging documents, suppression of archives, and bribing scholars.

Other countries know what happened, HELL, EVEN ENGLAND,FRANCE,GERMANY DID!

"In the province of Armenia, Abdul Hamid and the Young Turks had deliberately set
themselves to the simplification of the Armenian difficulty by exterminating and
deporting the whole race, whom they regarded as infidels and traitors." --David Lloyd George Prime Minister of Great Britain (1916-22)

"In 1915 the Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous
general massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor."
"There is no reasonable doubt that this crime was planned and executed for political
reasons."--Winston S. Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-45, 1951-55)http://books.google.com/books?id=-RHlOg1v8LIC&pg=PA410&ots=LFbprGkBGn&dq=german+newspapers+in+1915+for+armenian+genocide&sig=1IJCRUHYU6cU_LwFfVFYEl3qbVg

And who are the Turks to say WHO CAN'T PLAY THE PITY GAME?
Where Turks go off and massacre Kurds and smile about it.

WHy would Armenians, Greeks,s and Kurds lie? Obviously Turkey has done SOMETHING.
one more reason that Turks do not admit to their violent,
crimes, is they will be liable as far as LANDS, wealth who they took by force from us. And they have to pay it back.

AS HITLER SAID WHO CAN REMEMBER AN ARMENIAN.

Hitler gas the Jews to death, Ottomans march the Armenians to there death in desert.

Answer 9

some people died thats all....the turks killed about a million armenians and the armenians killed a similar amount of turks ....unfortunatelt hats the sort of thing that happens in that part of the world ,even today the armenians want revenge so support terrorists even in iraq.....it was more like a really dirty war but not genocide ....after all the jews never killed millions of germans did they ?

Answer 10

The Ottoman Empire believed that the Armenian government and people were betraying them to the Russians and so they deported hundreds of thousands of Armenians and forced them to march to camps in Syria, where they were starved, beaten, raped etc. I believe most figures list it at about 1.5 million but I'm not sure about specific ethnicities