Armenian+Genocide

The Armenian  Genocide

**The First World War is known for being a large scale war, involving countries throughout the world. Though, hidden by all of the battles a genocide occurred unnoticed by anyone other than the Armenians and the Turks. It was the Armenian Genocide. **


 * __The Beginning __**
 *  In the beginning, the Armenians in Russia were communicating with the Armenians in Turkey. The Russian Armenians wanted to expand Russian Armenia into Turkish lands. They wanted the help of the Turkish Armenians to do so. The Turks found out and wanted to do all they could to protect their powerful Ottoman Empire. Their solution was Genocide. **
 *  The people mainly responsible for the start of the Armenian Genocide were Enver Pasha, Mehmet Talaat Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha, who took control of the Ottoman Empire on January 26, 1913. They were the first leaders from the Committee of Union and Progress ("the Young Turks"). Mehmet Talaat Pasha wanted to remove the Armenian race to "Turkify" Turkey. They planned the Armenian Genocide before the First World War began and through secret meetings, in 1913, it was discussed by the Central Council. The Genocide occurred during WWI because so many countries were at war, and it was believed that they would not notice the mass extermination of the Armenians. **
 * -Enver PashaMehmet Talaat Pasha Ahmed Djemal Pasha **

__**The Extermination **__ 
 *  On April 24th, 1915, the Turkish government executed the Armenian leaders in Constantinople. After the leaders were killed, the Turks moved on to slaughtering the military. They were rounded up and sent to the countryside, where they were told they would be put to work. Unfortunately for them, they were beaten and starved, and eventually shot. Their bodies were piled in caves. **
 *  Then, the largest group that was exterminated, was the civilians. Big groups of Armenian men (tens of thousands) were rounded up and shot, while the women and children were deported. Deportees generally died on the mass marches that were often to Mesopotamia and Syria. The death on these marches was due to disease, starvation, and murder. If the deportees made it to their destinations in the desert, they were left to die. Many Armenians fled to Russia in hopes of escaping the mass murders, but disease and starvation took extreme amounts of lives. **
 *  --Deportation Routes out of Turkey-- **

__**The End **__
 * Before the 1920s began, countries started accusing the Turkish Government of committing genocide. The Turks denied that their massacres were genocide. **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;"> On May 28, 1918, the Armenians declared independence, but the Turks continued on with the genocide as if nothing had happened. Then within the next couple of years, the fire of the genocide died down as the rest of the world became aware of the situation. Rallies and protests occurred, but those ended as quickly as they began. In March 1921, the Treaty of Moscow caused the Armenians to be ruled by the Turkish yet again. Then, in 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne, a post-war agreement between turkey and the Allies, involved nothing about Armenia. The genocide was already being forgotten. **

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