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.
No. The Armenian genocide has ended of 1917. However, Turkey's continued failure to recognize the Armenian genocide has prevented Turkey and Armenia from reconciling.
Russian Duma recgonized the Armenian Genocide on April 14, 1995
No. Turkey has passed legislation banning any open discussion of the Armenian Genocide (part of Article 301) and uses its important diplomatic and economic position to prevent other countries from recognizing the Armenian Genocide. This has resulted in many Turkish diplomatic problems, like EU entry, which is conditioned on Turkey's acceptance of the Armenian Genocide. Failure to recognize the genocide has made it difficult to establish diplomatic relations between Turkey and the modern Republic of Armenia.Please see Editorial: Turkey Must Recognize the Armenian Genocide from 2004 to read more.
The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity or the Armenian Massacre refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Sam Azadian, who lost four siblings during the Armenian Genocide, founded the first Times Square Commemoration in 1985. The Turks don't recognize the Armenian Genocide as such. As a result of public awareness of the Armenian genocide, Turkey has lost the battle of truth.
Turkey applies a lot of pressure to all of its allies to ignore the Armenian, Pontic Greek, and Assyrian genocides. Considering that Israel cannot afford to really lose Turkey as a regional ally, this is the motive for non-recognition. However, there have been a number of debates in the Knesset concerning recognizing the Armenian genocide as the Turkish-Israeli relationship becomes increasingly weaker. Additionally, most Israeli academics are not even conflicted on the question of the genocides; they argue quite strongly that it did happen, like the majority of academics worldwide. Only 30 or so countries recognize the Armenian genocide, not even the United States federal government, and almost none recognize the other two. It is very unfortunate, in my view, since whether a tragedy is a genocide should not be a political decision, but should be clear from the historical facts. Unfortunately, the government of Turkey has made the recognition of the genocide a political issue.
If you mean about the Armenian Genocide, then that is because turkey pays America to not recognize it...
1.5 million was the number of deaths in the Armenian genocide.
The Ottoman Empire was involved in the Armenian Genocide.
The duration of The Armenian Genocide - film - is 3600.0 seconds.
The Armenian Genocide occurred in earnest during the years 1915-1917.
Only about 900,000 Armenians survived the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian Genocide - film - was created on 2006-04-17.