One of the most gruesome genocides to happen during the 20th century is the Greek Genocide, often referred to as the Pontian or Ottoman Greek Genocide. This genocide consisted of mass killings and exterminations of the Ottoman Greeks by the Turkish rule from 1914-1923. The main dispute was difference in religion and beliefs, Christians versus Islam. What most people do not know is that the Ottoman Greek Genocide is responsible for the almost complete destruction of the Christian Orthodox culture, including monuments and history. Many Greeks suffered from forced deportations, death marches, forced conversion of religion, executions, labor battalions, hunger, and the overall cruelty of the Turkish government during this time period. The ones responsible for these acts was the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the Young Turk reformists who seized control of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Greeks of all ages and genders were persecuted because of their culture and minority in Turkey, so that the CUP and the Young Turks could achieved perfect “Turkification” of the empire. The events of the Pontian Greek Genocide happened in the westernmost part of Asia called Asia Minor or Anatolia, which is the Greek word for ‘east’. The Greeks first settled in Asia Minor around the 11th century (BC). From the 4th century (AD), Asia Minor’s main religious practice has been Christianity in which it has played an important role in the development of Christianity. For a long period of time,
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On the 24 April 1915, as the Ottoman Empire was being dismantled, a fiercely nationalistic Muslim political party known as the Young Turks began the process of exterminating approximately 1 500 000 Armenian Christians. The Young Turks aimed to create a state that was free from any Armenians and from Christians in particular. The genocide lasted 8 years, until 1923, during which time the Armenian Christian population in the Ottoman Empire was reduced from approximately 2 million to approximately 500 000. Still today, Turkey refuses to call what took place ‘genocide’. The modern Turkish government argues that the intent was to relocate the Armenians or, in some cases, that the genocide was completely fabricated by the Armenians, as a bid to gain support from the outside Christian world.
In the 1900’s one of the most harrowing of Genocide’s occurred in the Ottoman Empire the Greek Genocide. What was the Greek Genocide? The Greek Genocide was the removal of Christian Greeks during the first World War. The accusations to begin killing the Christian-Greeks lasted for nine years. Beginning in 1914 ending in 1923 killing over one million Greeks.
During World War I, the government of Turkey sought to rid their country of the Armenians. The Turks and other ethnic groups hated the Armenians for their ability to prosper, even as a minority group with limited rights. This hatred led to the desire to cleanse the Ottoman Empire of Armenian influence. The Turkish people say that the Ottoman empire went through a civil war during this time, which explains the deaths of so many Armenians. Although the Turks claim otherwise, the treatment of the Armenian people during World War I qualifies as a genocide through scale, government involvement, and the usage of the genocide process.
As mentioned in the summary, the Ottoman Empire, which consisted of the Young Turks, allied with Germany during World War I and decided that they wanted a Muslim-only country. In the minds of the Young Turks, this would lead to territorial expansion and the solidification of their crumbling country. This brutal genocide, like any genocide, was incredibly horrendous, filled with rape, abuse, and, of course, death. A staggering 1.5 million Armenians shed blood in their hands! Not to mention the other minorities in Turkey.
I have selected to look at the Armenian genocide as the central topic for my Senior Project. The Armenian Genocide is the term given to the systematic killings of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during the first World War. This event is important because it is argued to be the first modem genocide and was one of the events studied in the attempt to define what a genocide is. The Armenian genocide is so important for study because of it's close relation to the creation of the nation of Turkey and the national identity to Armenian diaspora found around the world. The hundred years sense the start of the killings in 1915 have been a rocky road. The Turkish government refuses to recognize the event as a genocide and this has had
The denial of the Armenian genocide and the use of the term “alleged” are insults to those who have agitated over the years in highlighting the genocide and the Armenian people themselves. The pictorial anger and anguish of this painful traumatic experience had left the survivors of this horrific event with deep scars beyond repairs. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a dark world for the Armenians who were held helpless and bound at the treacherous hand of the Muslim Turks of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Armenian Genocide includes: the context of power of the Ottoman Empire, the phases of destruction and Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge the genocide and provide support to the Armenians.
The actual first genocide been labeled is by the historian Ben Kiernan, at the close of the Third Punic War(149-46 BCE), when the Roman sought to suppress the threat posed by Carthage. Among that is by the Christian followers during the European’s medieval era (Crusades), with Christians versus the “unbelievers”, in France (Albigensian crusade against Cathar heretics), Germany (against Jews), or the Holy Land of the Middle East.
In Rwanda during 1994 Genocide happened between the Hutus and Tutsis. Hutus and Tutsis had disagreements on who will have power which effected the whole population of Rwanda. This leads to the question why there is Genocide in Rwanda? Genocide happened by two clans who caused mass causalities. Others did little to help which caused Genocide to happen in Rwanda.
The Armenian Massacre happened in 1894-1896 and the Armenian Genocide happened in 1915-1920 which was caused by the Turkish Government. The Turkish Government’s aim was to remove all the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire because they were more educated and wealthier then the Turkish population . The Turkish Government was also worried that the Armenians would become allies with Russia, who were a threat to Turkey . They killed and deported the Armenians to prevent this happening. It has been estimated
According to Wikipedia, humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification, or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. The Latin root of ‘humiliation’ is ‘humus’, which means ‘earth’ or ‘dirt’ translating to ‘reduce to dirt’; representing ones rank in society. No one should have to experience the awful feeling of being humiliated, but it has been happening for centuries, and it continues to happen in our society to this very day. Humiliation promotes negative psychological thinking; it is used for punishment, to some it defines their status, and it could prompt a terrible situation if intertwined with anger.
The term “genocide” refers to the systematic killing of a group of people because of factors that may include race or religion. The Ottoman Empire is to blame for the Armenia Genocide which took place between 1915 and 1923 and resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million. Years after, under Adolf Hitler, Germany was to blame for the Holocaust which resulted in the death of over 6 million Jews. Despite both genocides taking place in different countries and during different time periods, both genocides have similarly caused the deaths of millions of innocent people and the leaders of the Ottoman Empire as well as Germany used humiliation, torture and propaganda to systematically exterminate people.
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political conditions, and social transformations in North Atlantic societies at the end of the 20th
When Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey, his ideology was to westernize the country through changing the education and political systems. Even though the majority of the population of Turkey supported the Kemalist (Atatürkist) ideology today and his “modern world-view”, they never acknowledge some of the genocides that happened