How were the Armenians killed in the ottoman empire?

Answer 1

Turkish View

Because they revolted against the government of the county they lived in, the Ottoman empire, and fought alongside the Russians against the Ottomans in WW1.

Armenian View

Not entirely true. Women, children and elderly were killed -not just men. The answer is much too long to discuss here - I suggest you look on websites such as armeniapedia.org and cilicia.org. Actually for over 40 years before the genocide of 1915 there were village massacres which led up to the genocide. Because the rest of the World was tied up in WWI they were not privy to the goings on of the Young Turks who systematically enforced gun control on many armenians who had lived in these cities and towns for millenia, not just centuries - Armenia was a vast nation until the Ottomans invaded in the 1500s. Armenians were peaceful, but wanted to protect her borders which were always in jeapordy because of the location right in the middle of the major trading routes. Eventually the kurds and the turks (all Muslim) wanted control and took what they wanted - much like what the United States did to the Native American people. Since Armenians were 1. Christian and 2. Well off for the most part, an industrious people and alot were in important government positions, the Young Turks decided they needed to get rid of this problem so they could control the land. The problem was: Armenians. One by one, villages throughout western Armenia were eliminated of 1. guns and 2. men. By men, we are talking any boy of the age of 14 and up was taken into either the Turkish army were they were shipped off to death camps, or in some instances just blatantly shot right outside of their front door, in front of their family. In an instant, on one day, April 15; dozens of important Armenian men were taken forcibly to the centers of their towns and either hung or beheaded in front of everyone. A few of these towns held "wedding dances" where they forced the newly widowed women to hold hands and dance in a circle as they were being shot at while their clothes were torn off, to humiliate them even further. The most deaths were caused when all Armenians who lived in Western Armenia were forced to leave everything behind and march for hundreds and hundreds of miles in the desert (Sinai) along the Euphrates River, which within weeks and months was vile with human blood, dead bodies floating and diseases were rampant. Over one and half million Armenians died because the Young Turks used violent criminals as guards for these marches, and they used any type of violent torture they could dream up - as gratitude for their violence they were granted complete pardons for their previous crimes. To this day, not only has there never been any type of restitution on the part of the Turks, they DENY that genocide ever took place. Then, to rub salt into wounds, they destroyed all of our ancient churches, ancient relics and renamed our cities to eliminate any history of Armenia in the 75-80% of the land they took from us, both from the west and from the east. Azerbaijani's were also encouraged by the Muslim Turks to destroy all of the Khachkars on Ancient Armenian land that date back before Christ's birth. On top of all of this, the Turks even laid claim to Mt. Ararat, a national Armenian landmark. When the atrocities were discovered, there were only a few small groups of orphaned children that hadn't been taken in by Turks as slaves or renamed to muslim names to forget their identity. The few surviving women were turned into sex slaves by the muslims and to show they were only "property" by their masters, they were tattoed all over their faces to publically display their shame. As I said, this is only a SMALL portion of what happened. I do encourage you to read about Armenian history, as it is vast and very ancient and extremely interesting. It's just sad that we don't have much of a homeland anymore. From what it was, there is only about 10% left now.

Answer 2

The Armenians were forced to work in Concentration camps. And if they didn't they were shot on the spot. The ottoman empire took away the Armenian Politics and Government and killed as many as they could.

Answer 3

About 1.5 million Armenians were systematically exterminated by the Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1917 and there were further massacres in 1922. This crime was committed on historical Armenian lands where they lived for thousands of years.

The Ottoman Empire, under the leadership of the Young Turks, massacred the native Armenians from their homelands under the veil of World War I. The Armenians were unable to defend themselves as they weren't even allowed to bear arms due to the fact they were a Christian minority. It is worth noting that several hundred thousand Pontiac Greeks and Assyrians were also victims of the Ottoman's extermination of the christian minorities of the region.

The Ottoman Turks have destroyed much of the incriminating records of their heinous actions in an effort to conceal the extermination, though several reports and documents have been surfacing as international scholars probe Turkey's archives. Many books have also been written on the subject, with the most popular being written by citizens of Turkey - Orhan Pamuk even won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his book on the Armenian Genocide! Although the Turkish government to this day continues to deny the Genocide, many citizens of Turkey privately accept and discuss the Armenian Genocide. Public discussion, on the other hand, is a violation of Turkey's Article 301, whereby those who insult "Turkishness" are subject to imprisonment.

The Armenian diaspora is a very devoted and powerful group, and will continue to seek acknowledgement of the genocide by Turkey and America. However, the Armenian Genocide is an openly recognized chapter in history worldwide.