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  Armenian Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A minor Armenian unrest in Bitlis Province was suppressed with brutality in 1894.
The Republic of Turkey does not accept that the deaths of Armenians during the "evacuation" or "deportation" (Turkey uses the word "relocation") are the results of an intention from Ottoman authorities (or those in charge during the war) to eliminate in whole or in part the Armenian people indiscriminently.
Revisiting Armenian Genocide by Guenter Lewy Guenter Lewy is professor emeritus of political science, University of Massachusetts, and the author of The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (University of Utah Press, 2005).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenian_Genocide   (7042 words)

  
 Hamidian (Armenian) Massacres
The Armenian Massacres in 1894-1896 were the first near-genocidal series of atrocities committed against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire.
The massacres broke out in the summer of 1894 in the remote region of Sasun in southern Armenia, where the government relied on the excuse of Armenian resistance to Kurdish encroachment into the last recesses of the mountains to order the sacking of the alpine hamlets.
Recalled by the Armenians as the "Great Massacres" and described in the literature of the time as the "Armenian Massacres," the atrocities of the 1890s are now often called the Hamidian Massacres to distinguish them from the greater atrocities associated with the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
www.armenian-genocide.org /encyclopedia/hamidian.htm   (671 words)

  
 Armenian Genocide, Armenian Massacres, Ottoman Empire, Government of Turkey
The Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th Century, occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres.
Armenians in Turkey were delighted with this sudden turn of events and its prospects for a brighter future.
Armenians were the professionals in society, the businessmen, lawyers, doctors and skilled craftsmen.
www.unitedhumanrights.org /Genocide/armenian_genocide.htm   (2558 words)

  
 Melson. Revolution and Genocide
To his argument that the massacres may have taken the form of a religious persecution but were not caused by religious motives, he may have added the observation that the Greeks, who were after all Christians, were for the most part not harmed during the massacres of the Armenians.
Massacre was used or acceded to by the regime in order to restore a traditional and hierarchical order, one that seemed to be intolerably threatened by the improved fortunes of groups that in other times had occupied a low, despised, or pariah status.
Though the massacres poisoned relations between Muslims and Armenians and may be viewed as a prelude to the genocide, the Armenian community survived the violence as a component millet of the Ottoman Empire.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/hst373/readings/melson.html   (8947 words)

  
 Revisiting the Armenian Genocide - Middle East Quarterly - Fall 2005
Armenians say they were the victims of the first genocide of the twentieth century.
Armenian writers have praised the contribution of the military tribunals for their elucidation of historical truth, but such broad conclusions are problematic given both the procedures of the trials and questions over the reliability of their findings.
Some Turkish and Armenian historians have suggested recently that it is time to "step back from the was-it-genocide-or-not dialogue of the deaf, which only leads to mutual recrimination" and instead concentrate on empirically grounded historical research that seeks a common pool of firm knowledge.
www.meforum.org /article/748   (4454 words)

  
 Question Forum: Armenian Massacres
The Armenian massacre perpetrated by the Turkish government of the time is to be condemned, but the blame cannot be put upon Muslims or Islam.
Armenian Americans bent on this prosecution choose their evidence carefully, omitting all evidence that tends to exonerate those whom they presume guilty, ignoring important events and verifiable accounts, and sometimes relying on dubious or prejudiced sources and even falsified documents.
Armenian Americans ignore the dire circumstances that precipitated the enactment of a measure as drastic as mass relocation.
www.mustaqim.co.uk /ipb-archive/question/ans57.htm   (6497 words)

  
 Armenian Genocide, Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Resistance and revenge: the armenian assassination of the Turkish leaders responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportations.
Settlement of Armenian refugees in the Erivan Republic.
Armenian atrocities, the murder of a nation, with a speech delivered by Lord Bryce in the House of Lords.
users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/turkey_armenians.htm   (1307 words)

  
 Ott--Armenian Massacres
Accounts of the massacres are not only abundant but also verifiable; it is the fragility of foreign relations that allows the United States to avoid laying blame for the Armenian massacres.
As Armenians see the continuing support of Israel by the United States in the religious battles of the Middle East, it is difficult to justify the United State’s silence about the Armenian massacres.
First, Armenians around the world would have some amount of closure for their struggle, and secondly, Americans would be able to add some truth to their moralist façade of pragmatism.
www.jmu.edu /evision/archive/volume3/essays/Ott.html   (1383 words)

  
 The Armenian Massacres of 1915
It was after 1911 that Russia began to press the İstanbul government for Armenian autonomy in the region and to lure the Armenians by promises of independence in return for cooperation during a possible war with the Turks.
Armenian political committees were also holding meetings to determine their own course of action in case the Ottoman Empire entered the war.
The Armenians were not, except perhaps sporadically, cast as an inferior racial group, and the relocation policy never included all the Armenian population of the Empire.
www26.brinkster.com /cemakas/armenian.htm   (7124 words)

  
 Armenian massacres
Series of massacres of Armenians by Turkish soldiers between 1895 and 1915.
The killing was stopped by the major European powers, but in 1915 Ottoman suspicions of Armenian loyalty led to further massacres and deportations.
The Turks deported 1.75 million Armenians to Syria and Palestine; 600,000 to 1 million were either killed or died of starvation during the journey.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0002954.html   (260 words)

  
 HyeEtch - Armenian Genocide - Massacres of 1894-1897: A Bibliography p2
Etesioh sosgali tebk ev voghperkout`un godoradzin Etesioh (The horrible incident of Etesia and the tragedy of the massacres at Etesia).
269-280, 281-297, 348-359, 365-374, and 482-491, all witnesses to the 1895 massacres at Marash.
Armenian Massacres or the Sword of Mohammed, Containing a Complete and Thrilling Account of the Terrible Atrocities and Wholesale Murders Committed in Armenia by Mohammedan Fanatics, Including a Full Account of the Turkish People, Their History, Government, Manners, Customs and Strange Religious Belief, to Which Is Added the Mohammedan Reign of Terror in Armenia.
www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /genocide/oppres_p5.html   (3000 words)

  
 HyeEtch - Armenian Genocide - Massacres of 1894-1897: A Bibliography p1
Since works on the 1894-1897 massacres are generally not as well known today as those on the subsequent Genocide, this bibliography attempts to document these publications and organize them into useful categories.
The Armenian Massacres of 1894-1897 are very complex and have been approached from various points of view.
Recognizing the diverse nature of publications about the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1897, including monographs, essays, periodical articles, newspaper reports, editorials, memoirs, official government correspondence, speeches, and pamphlets, from many countries and in many languages, and spanning more than a century, it would be unrealistic to call this bibliography exhaustive.
www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /genocide/oppres_p4.html   (2887 words)

  
 Armenian massacres. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
The killing of large numbers of Armenians who lived within the Ottoman Empire and its successor Turkish state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
From 1915 to 1920, more than a million Armenians died as the result of executions, massacres, starvation, and other repressive measures, and many fled to the United States and other countries.
‡ At times, terrorists claiming Armenian connections have killed Turkish officials and bombed Turkish buildings, demanding reparations.
www.bartleby.com /59/10/armenianmass.html   (169 words)

  
 March 9: Armenian massacres
Since Armenians were not allowed to own firearms (Muslims were), they were unable, except in rare instances, to defend themselves.
Pretty Armenian girls were raped openly in the streets--even in front of foreign visitors--or sold as slaves or concubines into homes where they were forced to convert to Islam.
In spite of this, for reasons unknown to us, exceptional measures are being taken with 'Certain People,' [Armenians who bought their lives] and those people instead of being sent straight to the place of exile [the desert] are left in Aleppo, whereby the Government is involved in an additional difficulty.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/03/daily-03-09-2001.shtml   (663 words)

  
 Table of contents for The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century 00 2.
The Armenian Case (1): Genocidal Plans 00 Turkish Nationalism, Turanism, and the Role of Ziya G¿kalp The "Ten Commandments" The Secret CUP Meeting of February 1915 Described by Mevlanzade Rifat Genocidal Consequences 6.
The Armenian Case (2): The Implementation of Genocide 00 Aram Andonian's The Memoirs of Naim Bey The Turkish Courts-Martial of 191920 The Role of the Teskilat-i Mahsusa (Special Organization) The Covert Nature of the Genocide 7.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023322.html   (432 words)

  
 JTW Article - Book Review: The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey, A Disputed Genocide
It is seen to the massacres as the only culpability was the Turks, but with Lewy’s book, it is understood clearly that the Armenians had many problems for the Turks at their worse situation during the wartime.
The other events, which caused the Armenian massacres, were seizing the Imperial Ottoman Bank by Armenian revolutionaries on August 26, 1896 (p.24) and a shot assumed by an Armenian outside a mosque in Bitlis on a Friday while the Muslims were in the mosque for their ritual Friday praying (p.23).
Geunter Lewy denies genocide and claims that the Armenian deaths in the Ottoman Turkey at the end of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century were massacres.
www.turkishweekly.net /articles.php?id=106   (4367 words)

  
 The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896: U.S. Media Testimony specs at MSN Shopping
The 1915 massacre of the Armenians by reactionary Ottoman Government foreshadowed a horrifying trend of genocide that would...
Yet not much is known about the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and how they set the stage for the events of 1915.
Not only do readers learn of the Armenian struggle for equality and, ultimately, independence from the Ottoman Empire, but they also discover rich evidence about the Armenians themselves, their Church, instabilities within the Empire, and charitable efforts spearheaded by American Christian missionaries.
shopping.msn.com /specs/shp?itemId=2795010   (261 words)

  
 Armenian Massacres Still Causing Political Fallout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
As the family and 200,000 other Armenians fled east from their homes in Van, near modern Turkey's eastern border, Turk and Kurdish forces opened fire from both sides.
About 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered by the Turks, or died of starvation and disease during mass deportations between 1915 and 1918.
But the powerful Armenian diaspora has been energetically lobbying the British Parliament and the US Congress, and pressing President Bush to use the "G" word in his annual message to the Armenian people on Sunday.
www.rense.com /general64/cause.htm   (798 words)

  
 Armenian Genocide, Armenian Massacres, Ottoman Empire, Government of Turkey
The first genocide of the 20th Century occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres.
The death marches, involving over a million Armenians, covered hundreds of miles and lasted months.
After the successful obliteration of the people of historic Armenia, the Turks demolished any remnants of Armenian cultural heritage including priceless masterpieces of ancient architecture, old libraries and archives.
www.unitedhumanrights.org /armen_genocide.htm   (2546 words)

  
 Armenian Genocide Article | Germany and the Armenian Massacres
A COLLECTION of German official documents compiled by Dr. Johannes Lepsius, founder of the German Orient Mission and President of the German Armenian Society, was published in Berlin with the authority of the Wilhelmstrasse toward the end of August, 1919.
In Armenia itself a so-called "rising" at Van furnished the pretext for the wholesale massacres and deportations that continued until the end of the year.
The value of Armenian property confiscated by the Turks is estimated at 1.000.000.000 marks (nominally $250.000.000).
www.cilicia.com /armo10c-nyt191911.html   (1339 words)

  
 Armenian Genocide Article | MORE ARMENIAN MASSACRES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
TIFLIS, Transcaucasia, (via Petrograd and London), June 5.--After the occupation by the Russians of Van, Turkish Armenia, bands of Kurds continued to commit atrocities in the districts of Bitlis, Mush and Diarbekr.
Armenian volunteers in increasing numbers are fighting desperately to protect the Christian population from the Kurds.
Inhabitants of Diarbekr, following the example of the Armenians in Van, have organized armed bands.
www.cilicia.com /armo10c-nyt19150606.html   (203 words)

  
 Armenian Research Center
• About the Armenian Research Center and the Director
• Materials on Armenia, Karabagh, and the Armenian Genocide
• News and Recent Events of the Armenian Research Center
www.umd.umich.edu /dept/armenian   (134 words)

  
 The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey Hardcover - SHOP.COM
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The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey : A Disputed Genocide
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 Armenian Massacres - Eduseek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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