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THE
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Summary of Events Leading up
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Somewhat
surprisingly to many, Armenians and Turks lived in
relative harmony in the
Ottoman Empire for centuries.
Armenians were known as the "loyal millet". During
these times, although Armenians were not equal and
had to put up with certain special hardships, taxes
and second class citizenship, they were pretty well
accepted and there was relatively little violent
conflict. Things began to change...
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1897 The urban
Armenian population of Garin and Arabkir
come out against the government .
1880 AugustBy special order of
the Turkish government, the word "Armenia"
is forbidden for use in official documents.
1894 August 20-27 Sassun’s Gelie-guzan
village massacre, known as the "Gelie-guzan
Hole Carnage" takes place. Here, Turks
inaugurate the system of slaughtering
unarmed people, which later was the
prototype for Hitler’s concentration camps...
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Armenians being
marched out of Harput.
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Enver Pasha |
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Ismail Enver,
known to Europeans during his political career as
Enver Pasha (Istanbul, November 22, 1881 - August 4,
1922) was a military officer and a leader of the Young Turk
revolution in the closing days of the Ottoman
Empire. He was a vocal supporter of eliminating the
non-Turkish population of the rump Ottoman Empire...
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Talat Pasha |
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Mehmed Talat Pasha
(Turkish: Mehmet Talat Paşa) (1872-1921) was one of leaders of
the Young Turks, Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917), and
leading member of the Sublime Porte from 1913 until 1918. One of
the architects of the Armenian Genocide...
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Sultan Abdul Hamid |
In 1876 Sultan Abdul Hamid became king of
the empire by the help of Medhat Pasha, who was at
the head of the liberal groups. First the Sultan
killed the Medhat Pasha and then in 1878 dissolved
the national parliament and he himself was set at
the head of affairs. He was a very tricky despot and
meanwhile he was a blood-thirsty dictator.
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Cemal Pasha |
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Cemal (pronounced,
and often spelled Jemal) was similarly killed by
Stepan Dzaghikian, Bedros Der Boghosian and Ardashes
Kevorkian in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
was the founder of the
modern Turkish Republic in 1923...
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Ottoman Empire
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The Christians and Jews had the subordinate
status of dhimmis forced upon them: they had to buy
protection from their Muslim rulers by paying the
jizya tax...
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September 5, 1915
Relief, Committee Asks Aid for Victims
of Turkish Decrees
The American Armenian Relief Fund
Committee has received two letters from Constantinople
describing the horrors to which the Armenian Christians in
Turkey are being subjected. One letter, dated June 15,1915 says in
part:
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Many articles about the
Armenian Genocide were printed in the New York Times at the time
it was taking place. You can read them at:
Armenian Genocide Contemporary Articles
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Armenian
diaspora community in the world |
Paris has
one of the largest Armenians
communities in France.
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