Definition of Armenian Genocide

One of the most unknown ethnic genocides in the West is systematically denied by the political authorities of the country that carried it out. And no, I am not talking about the systematic extermination of millions of Jews by the Nazis, from which Germany has blamed - and despite the fact that genociders of various European nationalities participated in it - but rather the one suffered by the people Armenian.

The Armenian genocide consisted of the forced deportation and slaughter of a still undetermined number of Armenians perpetrated by the Turkish government of the Young Turks, and which is between 600,000 and 2,000,000 victims.

The figures are very inaccurate and "dance" according to the Author since Turkey does not recognize the facts and prevents historians from accessing valuable documentation for calculations and know the history, if not that such documentation was destroyed long ago in an attempt to hide the evidence of something so sultry.

Armenia had been an independent kingdom that had its roots in the early civilizations of the East. middle, but that in the Middle Ages it was occupied and that in the 16th century it became part of the Empire Ottoman.

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Part of Armenia fell into Russian hands in 1829 as a result of the conflict Russian-Turkish, and in 1860 the movement of national liberation of Armenia, behind the so-called “Spring of the peoples ”, a series of nationalist and liberation movements in the framework of which historical nations without a state woke up and demanded their independence.

During World War I, Russian troops maintained a contingent of Armenian soldiers, which was joined by some Armenians from Turkey, which aroused suspicion and mistrust of the government.

Faced with the possibility of being "betrayed" by the Armenian community, the government As of April 24, 1915, the Turkish began a “cleansing” of Armenians in mostly Turkish territories, which would gradually spread to the Armenian territories itself.

The politics It consisted of detentions and long-distance forced marches, in which those who were forced to march died of their own exhaustion from the march and the lack of water and food they suffered in these, in addition to being exposed to the pillage of bandits and robbers who took advantage of the chance.

Many were also victims of the Turkish gendarmes who, theoretically, were supposed to protect them.

At the end of the first world conflagration, the United States supported an independent Armenian state, the duration of which was short-lived.

Turkey attacked this national entity while carrying out an ethnic cleansing of its own soil that also included Greek communities on the west coast of Anatolia, which had lived there since before the arrival of the Roman empire.

The Turkish objective was to be able to present to the negotiating table the largest territory It may be that he was "distinctly Turkmen".

In 1991, and as a consequence of the collapse of the USSR, the Russian part of Armenia obtained its independence.

Since then, and together with the Armenian communities established around the world as a result of the diaspora resulting from the genocide, this state has become one of the voices that denounces the killings.

The Armenian genocide is controversial today because of its denial by Turkey, which has had diplomatic problems with countries that have recognized it.

This has been the case in Germany, which recognized it in 2016, with the subsequent protests by the Turkish government of the nationalist Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Apart from Germany, other countries in the world have officially recognized it, such as Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Greece (Turkey's everlasting enemy), Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, the Vatican and, of course, Armenia.

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