Armenian genocide not a genocide!?

Question

People think millions of armenians were killed after ww1. I myself do not agree with the word genocide. Yes some armenians did die true. But what about those Turkish people in the east when the soldiers of those famlies left the famlies, they were without anyone to protect them. Those Armenians backstaped the Turks and killed the kids and women in the villages including Mardin, Diyarbakir. People do not talk about that do they now. The reason why the Ottomans killed some armenians is because they were attacking us first while we were fighting Britain, New Zealand, France, and Australia at the same time.

Answer 1

Yes it was.



The Armenians were targetted because they were Armenians,not just individual Armenians that were believed to have committed crimes.The round up of the entire Armenian civilian population in Istanbul at the start of the Genocide can hardly have been because these individuals were involved in violence hundreds of miles away,as they weren't.Further,what happened to the Armenians during WW1 was a deliberate state policy,and carried out on government orders by state organs,such as the Turkish army.This all makes what happened a Genocide.



After WW1,the Sultan had the senior government ministers responsible for the policy put on trial.They were found guilty,in a Turkish court,by Turkish judges.

Answer 2

May I just offer my own perspective on this issue?



Okay, I will try to answer in a calm, cool manner concerning this:



This case has a lot of similarities to the Rwandan Genocide. Both the Armenians and Turks committed horrible crimes against each other, and both have been engaged in an arms race concerning academic study of this event by shmoozing politicians, installing puppet scholars into major university systems and academic groups, etc.



And yet, careful reading of this event, at least to me, shows intent of genocide on the part of the Turks against the Armenians. Why? The photos taken by Armin Wegner, telegrams and documents produced by the German soldiers and Ottoman leadership (these appear to indicate a large sense of racism against the Armenians at the time), Mehmet Talaat Pasha's cynical reaction and answer given to a question asked by the Swedish ambassador (Sweden was neutral), and the widespread scale of deportations throughout the empire at the time (many Armenians in the western area were also deported/massacred, although the main focus was in the eastern part at the time). Also, the many eyewitnesses to the killings, along with Dr. Robert Jay Lifton's findings of medical records that show that many (if not most) of the top Turkish medical professionals at the time were being paid to poison Armenians on purpose. In addition, it has been found that the Kurds were being paid by the Ottoman political and military leadership at the time to attack and kill the Armenians.



Unfortunately, I feel that you may simply be wanting to rant, rather than to carefully read up on this subject. I hope this reading as a whole helps you understand why many feel it was a genocide.

Answer 3

The Armenian was a Genocide.

A Genocide is define by The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

The Turks Killed many Armenians had many of them were Deported and sent to camp prison. They march and anyone who rest was shot. The Armenians were even Burned. Even a Turk officer witnessed it and and wrote about it.

They also tested many drugs and poison on the Armenians. Again many Turks were there to Witness it and Wrote about it.



The psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton writes in a parenthesis when introducing the crimes of Nazi doctors, “Perhaps Turkish doctors, in their participation in the genocide against the Armenians, come closest, as I shall later suggest.



It sounds a lot like the holocaust doesn't it? The only difference is that Germany already acknowledge its genocide against the Jews and apologized already. However Turkey refuse and Denies it.

Answer 4

my grand mother told me about how those armenian gangs murdered whole turkish villages in azerbaijan, half of my family were killed by armenians, they still have its revenge incoming.



here is the complete story, allies knew they cant face ottoman army directly so they decided to make some divisions, they fooled and armed armenians (and arabs) and made them betray ottoman empire, of course ottoman army could not sit and watch armenian murderers killing its civilians.



there was an US consulate in the city of Urmya, north west of iran, you know we are turks in north west iran.

british agents used the authority rights of that consulate to arm and prepare armenians, they even stole weapon stockpiles of Urmya fort and brought it to armenian hands, so armenians begun their crimes, if ottoman regiment wouldnt arrive in time they may had killed every last one of turks around.

Answer 5

howdy,why do no longer you share archives with Turkey.we are able to all study the actuality.yet you do no longer decide for to do it,so it is your issue.we can by no capacity convey regret for something that by no capacity occurred.and not in easy terms Armenian human beings died,yet many ppl of many countries died.?t's throughout now.Why won't be able to you be acquaintances,...........And while you're in seek of for a criminal right here it would be you.you do no longer experience something with reference to the diplomats killed via Armenians?This replaced into no longer interior the previous.,tell me,who're the criminals ?