Was anything done to try and prevent the Armenian genocide from happening?

Answer 1

no

This is arguable... it is an opinion...I believe it could have been prevented because World War 1 had greatly weakened the Armenians and the war had prevented other countries who had wanted to help from helping because they had little monet and supplies to spare.

Answer 2

Why do you THINK they would call it a genocide if it wasn't

A book that illustrates this time in history is "Forgotten Fire" by Adam Bagdasarian, an excellent, first hand account of the 1915 Armenian genocide written for the adolescent age group. I found it most suitable for adult level reading. This is another one that should be in high school and middle school libraries.

Answer 3

The Armenian genocide took place between 1915 and 1923 with most events happening between 1915 and 1917. During this time World War I was unfolding and no armed intervention to stop the genocide ever occurred.

Answer 4

This is a question asking about a "what if" scenario and counterfactuals. As a result, there is a certain amount of opinion in all of the answers. Take any answer to this question, including mine, with a grain of salt and substantive criticism.

The Young Turks as an organization were interested in creating a united Turkish identity which equated that identity exclusively with Muslim Turkish-speaking peoples. If the Young Turks had changed their ideology slightly, to advocate for a Turkish nation-state that would encompass numerous minorities who believed in the Turkish dream or a Turkish nation-state with autonomous regions for the Non-Muslim Non-Turkish minorities, the Armenians could well have rallied behind this state and be seen (as they had historically been seen by the Ottomans) as the loyal minority. This would have effectively prevented the Armenian genocide.

Answer 5

YES. The Armenians, along with the Pontic Greeks, and Assyrians, were subject to a GENOCIDE in the Ottoman Empire during the years of 1915-1917. Turks have pushed to have it ignored through ridiculous arguments as is discussed in this Related Question: Why does the Turkish Government deny that a genocide took place?

The genocide was very well-organized. The first group attacked and murdered were the Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul, which were the very people who would be most attached to the Ottoman State and willing to argue against independence in their communities. Next, entire villages were expunged of the majority-Armenian, majority-Greek, and majority-Assyrian inhabitants and the names of the cities completely altered to create "theoretical" Turkish names in a process called Turkification. The Armenians were marched to Deir ez-Zur in the Syrian desert without food and water (the Pontic Greeks and the Assyrians were marched to other places). There were numerous massacres and concentration camps along the route to Deir ez-Zur. Roughly 1.5 million Armenians were killed and over half of the Armenian homeland was depopulated of Armenians.

Answer 6

No because as the president died they had no control over what was going to happen next. They had no way to defend their country.

Answer 7

If America found proof that Iraq was or was not gonna start a nuclear war.

Answer 8

Some individual people did try to protect Armenians, but no country actively took steps to stop the Armenian Genocide.