Ottoman Turkey Genocide

Armenian genocide armenian genocide genocide.

Ottoman turkey genocide. Armenian genocide campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the armenian subjects of the ottoman empire by the young turk government during world war i 1914 18. Although poor generalship and harsh conditions were the main reasons for the loss the young turk government sought to shift the blame to armenian treachery. It is the second most publicised case of genocide after. It resulted in the annihilation of around three.

It was ruled by muslim turks headed by the sultanate of the osmanli ottoman dynasty. The armenian genocide is almost unanimously acknowledged as a historical fact by historians and genocide scholars alike. In january 1915 enver paşa attempted to push back the russians at the battle of sarıkamış only to suffer the worst ottoman defeat of the war. The armenian genocide also sometimes known as the armenian holocaust was the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1 5 million ethnic armenians carried out in turkey and adjoining regions by the ottoman government between 1914 and 1923.

The turkish government currently denies the genocide. Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the armenian people and thus an act of genocide. It was instigated by the government of the ottoman empire and the turkish. The greek genocide greek.

γενοκτονία των ελλήνων genoktonia ton ellinon including the pontic genocide was the systematic killing of the christian ottoman greek population carried out in anatolia during world war i and its aftermath 1914 1922 on the basis of their religion and ethnicity. Armenian genocide denial is the denial of the planned systematic genocide of up to 1 5 million armenians during world war i conducted by the ottoman government. The christian genocide in ottoman turkey lasted for 10 years from 1913 to 1923 and targeted armenian greek assyrian and other christians. The armenians of the eastern regions of the empire were massacred.

Whereas the convening of courts martial to try the young turks for war crimes by the post world war i ottoman government amounted to an admission of guilt on the part of the state the nationalist government based in ankara rejected turkish responsibility for. Turkey is the successor state of the ottoman empire and its official policy on the armenian genocide is the denial of its occurrence. Considered the first modern genocide by scholars. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 april 1915 the day that ottoman authorities rounded up arrested and deported from constantinople now.

The ottoman state variously called turkey or the turkish empire was governed according to islamic law which relegated non muslims to. The ottoman empire was the state responsible for the armenian genocide.