In effect, the Turkish government had succeeded in its diabolical plan to exterminate the Armenian population from what is now Turkey. The failure of the international community to remember, or to honor their promises to punish the perpetrators, or to cause Turkey to indemnify the survivors helped convince Adolph Hitler some 20 years later to carry out a similar policy of extermination against the Jews and certain other non-Aryan populations of
The Armenian people had a lot to move on from. Almost all their population was wiped out. The Kurdish Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Iraqi Government against the entire Kurdish population. In Sarafian Fernandes’ paper “After 16 March 1988, one word came to symbolize the tragedy of the Kurds -- Halabja. Halabja is the Kurdish Auschwitz; not because the scale of the massacre was comparable with that of the Nazi death camp, but because the victims were chosen merely because they were Kurdish civilians.” In the beginning before the genocide, Armenians, Kurds and Turks lived in relative harmony in the Ottoman Empire for centuries.
This greatly influenced the Ottomans to carry out a policy to eliminate its Christian Armenian minority. For years prior to the beginning of the war, the Armenians were already witnessing massacres that were being carried out toward their people. The Ottoman government viewed WWI as an opportunity to rid the country of its Armenian
TJ Ledbury Period 7 English September 28, 2010 Dehumanizing of the Armenians The Armenian Genocide that swept through on April 24th, 1914, seems so forgotten. The Turkish Government had the idea that if they denied this so called Genocide then later on in time people would just forget about it and pretend like it never happened. The Turkish soldiers went from city to city and state to state taking away every single Armenian family and took them away. The goals of the Turks were to do one thing and one thing only, dehumanize the Armenians. The three main ways they did this were, starvation, making them feel alone and unwanted, and just killing everyone.
Thesis: Before the problem of the Armenian genocide the Armenian and the Turk lived in harmony as second class citizen. A century ago the Armenian genocide was one of the most massive and horrific time there ever was. Around in 1915, the Turkish government wanted to get rid of all Armenians in three steps, as this go on the Armenian race was on a thin line onto extermination. As in today in the 21st century, people are affected of what happen in the past and mostly the Armenians are angered at the Turkish because the Turks still today deny that there was ever genocide toward the Armenian. Life before the Genocide: Although Armenians were second class citizens in the Ottoman Empire; they lived in relative harmony with Turks for centuries before the forces of nationalism transformed the situation.
The film shows us how very few Middle Eastern countries embraced any form of western policies, and the ones that did suffered backlash from their “brothers.” Turkey is the most recognizable country to embrace western philosophies some of those philosophies include women having equality and democracy. It also shows us how the divide of the Middle East helped Nazi Germany in WWII defeat Great Britain and France. At the end of the war it shows how Arab nations wanted to get the Jews out of Israel and then the Arab leaders where assassinated for their involvement and embarrassment for their failure of keeping the Jews out of Israel. In the wake of the defeat a new generation of leaders emerged which gave the countries hope. These new leaders did not create open societies they built nations of animosity towards Israel.
Living conditions where poor. Concentration Camps: Camps where Jews were forcefully sent to be killed or burned or held till they eventually died of sickness. 2: I believe the 4 events that led to WW2 was the treaty of Versailles, Hitler coming to power (by election), the Nuremberg laws, and the Aryan Solution. 3: I believe that the u.s shouldn’t have blocked the entry of Jews into our land, even though we had already passed the neutrality acts and decided to become isolationist, doesn’t mean we can’t extend a hand of help to those who need it. 4: I believe that the Nazi system of systematic genocide was so effective because a majority of the German people powered the cause, the most obvious proof of that was shown on the night of
Although various Armenian states exercised sovereignty in the ancient and medieval periods, the region was most often dominated by more powerful neighbors, including Persia, Rome, the Seljuk Turks, and the Ottoman Turks. As Christians, Armenians were subject to frequent persecution at the hands of Islamic governments. In the 1890s, an Ottoman attempt to rid the empire of this troublesome minority led to the murder of several hundred thousand Armenians and an international call for reforms. After Ottoman defeat in World War I, Armenia briefly declared a republic (1918). Fearing Turkish aggression, the country accepted the protection of the Soviets in 1920 and in 1922 joined with Georgia and Azerbaijan to form the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
World War I began because of many obstacles that America would have to sustain in order for the war to diminish. On May 7, 1915, the German army sank a ship called the Lusitania. At this time, 1,198 people lost their lives and included 128 American people. This ship was carrying war shipments from the United States to England. The passengers on the ship knew there may be a possible attack on the ship but Woodrow Wilson condemned this attack as illegal and inhuman.
In spite of such criticism, Pamuk’s literary greatness remains unquestionable—the Nobel Literature Award of 2006 proves it. The ground swell of such reaction symptomizes, if anything, an a priori assumption, caused not so much by his writings, but by his being a Turk caught in the cross-fire of a political battle of wits between Europe and Turkey. Pamuk’s statement to a Swiss periodical about the Armenian genocide of 1915 (when a million Armenians were killed in Turkey) and the more recent Kurdish genocide in his country (in which thirty-thousand Kurds were massacred), for which Turkey has not officially regretted, stirred vehement protests both from Turkey’s religious conservative camp and the secular establishment. Pamuk had to face a criminal trial in 2005 under the controversial Article 301 for belittling his country and “insulting Turkishness.” Though the case was eventually dropped by the Turkish government to show that they respected the individual’s freedom of speech in a secular democracy, it nonetheless made him a controversial figure. Europe watched these developments in Turkey with bemused interest.