The Armenian Genocide
Gaby Monasterio
Sreekar Kandlakunta
Quincy Rhoades
When?
- The genocide took place from 1914 to 1922
Consequences?
- The population of Armenians in Turkey went from 2,133,190 to 387,800 in 8 years
- Armenian people were taken from their homes and forced into concentration camps
- Some were forced to march for miles upon miles, without food or water, and in one case, without clothes.
- In Aleppo, many women and children were abandoned without food, water or money to support themselves. The emaciated Armenians could not digest food, and starved to death, or caught Typhoid.
Turkish Justification
- The Turkish government tried to say that the mass “deportation” of the Armenians was for military purposes, as they had “lent themselves to acts of espionage”
Real Reasons
- A more likely reason was because they needed a scapegoat, and the religious minority of the Christian Armenians served their purpose.
- Apparently, a few Armenians escaped death by converting to Islam, and a few children were carted off to “Turkish and Kurdish villages, where they have to accept Islam”
- Time of great turmoil in the crumbling Ottoman Empire, and the government wanted to crush any opportunities for dissent from the Christian minority.
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