Ottoman Turkey Genocide

The armenian genocide is almost unanimously acknowledged as a historical fact by historians and genocide scholars alike.

Ottoman turkey genocide. The armenians of the eastern regions of the empire were massacred. It was ruled by muslim turks headed by the sultanate of the osmanli ottoman dynasty. The christian genocide in ottoman turkey lasted for 10 years from 1913 to 1923 and targeted armenian greek assyrian and other christians. It is the second most publicised case of genocide after.

The greek genocide greek. Turkish nationalists similarly deny the assyrian and greek genocides of the same period. The ottoman empire was in existence from 1300 to 1923. The ottoman empire was the state responsible for the armenian genocide.

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. 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. 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.

Armenian genocide armenian genocide genocide. The ottoman state variously called turkey or the turkish empire was governed according to islamic law which relegated non muslims to. 1915 1918 ottoman empire 850 000 1 800 000 young turk government and kurdish tribes armenians. Considered the first modern genocide by scholars.

It resulted in the annihilation of around three. 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. 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.

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. 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.