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The Ottoman Empire was responsible for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917.
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What term best describes the Turkish government action against the Armenians?
Genocide
Who was the Armenian genocide against?
The Ottoman Empire was responsible for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. It was the Armenians who were targeted by Ottoman Turks and Kurdish allies.
What other nation was genocide committed against?
There have been, unfortunately, a fair number of genocides. The word was coined to describe what the Turks did to the Armenians. Later, the Nazis committed genocide against Jews. The Serbians committed genocide against Bosnians, the Hutis in Rwanda committed genocide against the Tutsis. Recently, the Islamic State (ISIS) committed genocide against the Yazidis, and the Rohyngya are victims of genocide in Burma.
Did the Armenians ever resist during the Armenian genocide?
yes the Armenian resisted during the Armenian genocide by forming groups of fighting soldiers and there was the general "general Antranig" who led the troops during the war to fight against the Turks. and you can see that there were Armenians resisting during the genocide in the movie"ARARAT" which will give you a lot of vital informations about the genocide.
What is the Armenian Genocide and should we Recognize it?
The Armenian Genocide was in fact a genocide. It was the mass killing of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire and had the intent of exterminating the Armenian race. This is because Armenians were hated by the Turks for being Christians and revolting against Turkish rule by wanting equal rights between Christians and Muslims.
What accusation did the Muslim Turks lodge against the Christian Armenians?
The Turks accused the Armenians of aiding the Russians in World War I to circumvent Ottoman defenses in the East with minimal evidence. Now they accuse the Armenians of trying to defame their name because of the Armenian request that the world recognize the Armenian Genocide.
What occured in Armenia during World War 1?
In 1915 Turkey launched a campaign of genocide against the Armenian people. Before the genocide there were over two million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire; after, there were fewer than 400,000.Incidentally, the man who coined the word "genocide" was a lawyer of Polish/Jewish origin who investigated the accounts of the Armenian massacres.
Why go against genocide?
Because genocide is wrong.
What ended Armenian GEnocide?
The Armenian Genocide ended when the Armenian community on the Eastern part of the land beat the Turkish in the battle of Sardarabad, consequently ended their killing rampage on Armenian soil. Most of the Armenians in western cities were killed in a systematic killing by ethnicity and many cities captured by the Turks. However the Armenian Genocide has not truly ended because the Turks still deny that this great atrocity happened and the last stage of genocide is denial. Also Armenians in Turkey are still being killed for speaking their mind about the events of 1915. Recently an Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was killed for reporting about the Armenian Genocide. ----- 'Armenian Genocide' ended because what was intented as 'genocide' was done. What was intended was to isolate Turkish and Armenian populations which were nearly between a civil war. As Armenians were only %20 of these provinces in East they were deported to Russia and todays Syria. In 1922 Turkish Nationalist Army won against Democratic Republic of Armenia thus a peace treatry is signed.
Which of the following empires murdered over one million Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Greeks?
Answer this question… Ottoman Empire
When did Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide happen?
Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide happened in 1970.
What groups where involved both as victim and aggressor in the genocide armenia?
Murder and expulsion of Turkish Armenians by the Ottoman Empire under Abdulhamid II in 1894 - 96 and by the Young Turk government in 1915 - 16. In 1894, when the Armenians began agitating for territorial autonomy and protesting against high taxes, Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen killed thousands. In 1896, hoping to call attention to their plight, Armenian revolutionaries seized the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul. Mobs of Muslim Turks, abetted by elements of the government, killed more than 50,000 Armenians in response. Sporadic killings occurred over the next two decades. In response to Russia's use of Armenian troops against the Ottomans in World War I (1914 - 18), the government deported 1.75 million Armenians south to Syria and Mesopotamia, in the course of which some 600,000 Armenians were killed or died of starvation.
