Who slaughtered people in the armenian genocide?

Answer 1

The people involved in the Armenian Genocide were:

• The "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire
• The Armenians were the victims of the Ottoman Turks
• Pontic Greeks and Assyrians were also targeted by the Ottoman Turks

Answer 2

In 1915, Ismail Enver Pasha, one of the leaders of the Ottoman Empire (the country that would become Turkey) and the Young Turk Revolutionary Organization, coordinated the genocide of the Armenian people living in the eastern part of Anatolia. He did this along with two other key Young Turk leaders: Mehmed Talaat Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha. It was a coordinated attempt to drive the Armenians out of their ancestral lands and to eliminate not only them, but all traces that they had ever lived in eastern Anatolia. These men were extreme nationalists who wanted to create a modern ethnically Turkish state. In addition to the Armenians, Pontic Greeks and Assyrians were also subject to the genocide.

The first group attacked and murdered were the Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul. 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. Over 100 cities and townships were Turkified in this way. 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). In addition to numerous deaths from starvation and thirst, there were numerous massacres and concentration camps along the route to Deir ez-Zur. That genocide was the goal is basically assured. This is not to mention the courageous work of Gregoris Balakian who detailed how the system was organized.

Answer 3

In 1915, Ismail Enver Pasha, one of the leaders of the Ottoman Empire (the country that would become Turkey) and the Young Turk Revolutionary Organization, coordinated the genocide of the Armenian people living in the eastern part of Anatolia. He did this along with two other key Young Turk leaders: Mehmed Talaat Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha. It was a coordinated attempt to drive the Armenians out of their ancestral lands and to eliminate not only them, but all traces that they had ever lived in eastern Anatolia. These men were extreme nationalists who wanted to create a modern ethnically Turkish state. In addition to the Armenians, Pontic Greeks and Assyrians were also subject to the genocide.

Answer 4

The Armenian Genocide exclusively took place in the Ottoman Empire and this was the only country involved.