Genocidio Armeni, tesina

REPUBLIC OF THE DIASPORA

ARMENIA (ALL AROUND THE PLANET)

(AND KARABAKH)

3 MILLION INHABITANTS 7.7 MILLION

PEOPLE!

Armenians live side to side with

other cultures

They get in touch with other people’s cultures without ever forgetting theirs.

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5 THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN

? TURKS AND ARMENIANS

(1894-1923)

The «Hamidian» Massacres (1894-

1986)

The killings that preceded the Genocide, led by Sultan Abdul Hamid II

Road of hate and discrimination to the

Genocide.

Armenians and other minorities were

treated injustly and demanded EQUALITY

They were considered

second class citizens...

1. Lots of extra-taxes for

christians

2. No power to vote

3. Treated inequally in

trials/lawsuits

Years 1890-1920, Ottoman

The Great Powers forced the

reforms

Sultan to make for the

minorities, but...

The reforms were never

implemented in law,

discriminations only became

worse...

Up to 300.000 Armenian civlians were

killed on Abdul Hamid’s order. (1894-

1896)

Media and press described the Sultan as

«Great Assassin» or «Bloody Sultan» David

Matas

Canadian human

rights activist and

writer.

«Nothing encourages a criminal more than

knowing that he can commit a crime without

being considered the responsible of it»

Growing turk-nationalist movement:

The «Young Turks» party replaces Abdul

Hamid II

«Pan Islamism» – Complete turkification of the Empire

1. No minorities tollerated unless they converted to the

2. Islam, elimination of every internal obstacle (even many

turk journalists and civilians) that could represent a

threat to the regime.

“PROTOTIPE” OF NAZISM…

Definition of the term

Geno - cide

« »

THE WORD WAS INTRODUCED 1944 BY DR. RAPHAEL

LEMKIN

THE GENOCIDE (1915-1923)

HISTORICAL FACTS, HORRIBLE EVENTS, SYSTEMATIC

DEPORTATION, MURDER, PLUNDERING AND LOOTING OF

GOODS OF 1,5 MILLION HUMAN BEINGS

What happened...

being

Armenians were accused of

«traitors», «infedels» and

«separatists» by the Ottoman

government

• The YT Government ordered the deportation

of the Armenian population. They had to be

sent out of the Empires’ territory, to the

«national safety reasons»;

eastern regions for

• The Inconstitutional «Temporary

deportation law» and «Temporary

expropriation law» were illegally introduced to

deport and confiscate the goods & credits of

over 1 million Armenians.

Ahmed Riza was the ONLY Turkish senator

NOT to vote in favour of these laws...

«It’s illegal to define the Armenians’ goods as ‘abandoned

goods’ since they haven’t abandoned them by their will. They

have been removed with force by their homes and exiled. If

we live in a constitutional regime that respects law, we

cannot act this way. This act is disgusting.»

Ahmed Riza, during a debate in the Turkish Senate

(November 1915)

Around 1.500.000 people were

killed

 In the Syrian desert, people would die dehydrated. Those who stopped

walking were killed immediatly by the armed turkish forces;

 Women were raped. Pregnant women were killed by ripping the embryos out

of their wombs;

 Many were crucifixed for not converting to Islam;

 Tens of thousands were thrown off cliffs at once into rivers to drown;

 Little children who were not killed, were converted to Islam. Their names

were changed and they were grown up as turks, without ever knowing their

origins;

 Mass burnings killed tens of thousands.

PROTOTYPE

THE OF OTHER HOLOCAUSTS...

YOUNG TURK PARTY (1906) NAZISM (1923, A. HITLER)

•

NATIONALISTIC IDEAL – ONE «RACE» PREVAILS OVER ALL THE OTHERS;

•

SYSTEMATIC ELIMINATION of all minorities by accusing them of being

ARMENIANS – JEWS)

the cause of all misfortune in their country; (

•

OPPRRESSION of internal opposition to the regime.

“Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the

...

TURKEY’S POSITION TODAY

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL ,

DESPITE PROVES AND INTERNATIONAL

PRESSURE.

There are two divergent opinions in

Turkey regarding the Genocide

1. THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT, 2. CONSISTENT PART OF TURKISH

NATIONALISTS, ERDOGAN AND HIS POPULATION + GREATEST TURKISH WRITERS

FOLLOWERS

Not a «genocide», those who died 

Yes, it’s a genocide.

are simple «casualties of war». 

Reconciliation with Armenians;



NO to disinformation in schools.

(How is it possible to call deporting and killing unarmed

men, women, kids and old people «war»?)

Dictatorship

The of Turkey – (how it

still limits basic freedoms up to today)

Art. 301 (Turkish Penal Code):

«A person who publicly denigrates the Government of the

Republic of Turkey shall be punishable by imprisonment

of between six months and two years.»

FACT: TURKEY, COUNTRY WITH MOST IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS ON EARTH

(more than China and Russia)

ORHAN PAMUK HRANT DINK

‘SPEAKING TOO

REPORTED FOR KILLED BY A TURKISH

MUCH’ NATIONALIST

Bestselling turkish writer (63 years old) Turkish-Armenian journalist;

• •

The only Turkish Nobel Prize in Literature Fought for reconciliation between Armenia

• •

winner in 2006; and Turkey

 

«The Armenian Genocide is an Prosecuted 3 times for the art. 301 and

undeniable fact» shot dead in January 2007

INTERNATIONAL REACTION FOR THE

100° ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENOCIDE

POPE FRANCIS WITH ARMENIAN POPE,

« S A N TA M E SS A » – VAT I C A N C I T Y ( 2 4 / 0 4 / 2 0 1 5 ) 48/52 US ST

ATES

FACT two Turkey

: There are countries that deny the Genocide: and

Only the strong are great enough

to ask for apology...



Show their human spirit;



Make a closure with their own

history (as perpetrators of

horrendous crimes against

humanity)



Step forward to condemn genocides

all over the world;



It could open a dialogue between

Turkey and the EU. DEUTSCH

Armin T. Wegner (1886-1978)

DER MANN DER DAS GENOZID AN DEN ARMENIERN DOKUMENTIERTE UND SICH

FÜR DIE GERECHTIGKEIT DER ARMENIER EINSETZTE (SOWIE AUCH FÜR DIE DER

JUDEN)

«Mein Gewissen treibt mich dazu als Zeuge des

Geschehens auszusagen. Ich bin die Stimme der

Flüchtlinge die in der Wüste schreien.»