Posted on 02/24/2018 12:00:32 PM PST by Texas Fossil
The Armenian Massacres in 1894-1896 were the first near-genocidal series of atrocities committed against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. They were carried out during the reign of Abdul Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909), the last sultan effectively to rule over the Turkish state. The massacres broke out in the summer of 1894 in the remote region of Sasun in southern Armenia, where the government relied on the excuse of Armenian resistance to Kurdish encroachment into the last recesses of the mountains to order the sacking of the alpine hamlets. The incident resulted in strong Armenian protests against the sultan's brutal policies and European interventions to quell further disturbances by persuading the Ottoman government to adopt reforms for the Armenian-populated provinces. The police responded to a demonstration held in Constantinople in September 1895 by Armenian political organizations which sought to pressure the government and the European Powers to implement the promised administrative reforms by letting loose a massacre in the capital city. Thereupon, beginning without provocation in the city of Trebizond on the Black Sea, and in a pattern indicating a premeditated plan, a series of massacres spread south through nearly every major Armenian-inhabited town of the empire. It culminated in the single worst atrocity in those months with the burning of the Armenian cathedral of Urfa (ancient Edessa) within whose walls some 3,000 Armenians had taken refuge during the siege of their neighborhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at armenian-genocide.org ...
Now in Turkey: "To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II, Ankara provincial directorate of education ordered school principals to organize events which all students will join in."
Source: https://twitter.com/UzayB/status/967471550256558081
Does this celebration by Turkey under Erdogan the Islamist surprise you?
Should we celebrate the Death of the Sultan and always remember the first of the Great Massacres?
Please read the short but very concise article at the link.
I don’t think anyone understood the Armenian and Assyrian genocides until we finally wrapped our heads around “jihad”.
But people, I think, are finally starting to get it.
They did not understand because those who did understand stood silent. For various very bad motives.
But yes, the mask is off now. And Turkey’s actions are still the same.
Would it not have been nice if the Armenians all had AR-15’s during that time?
1890s. And a few decades earlier it was the Zoroastrians, while a few decades later it was the Greeks. You would think extermination is the national game of Turkey.
Prior to the Genocide, they took the precaution to conscript the Armenian men and confiscate the firearms.
Aah, Islam, the ROP.
Ambassador Morgenthau’s contemporaneous writings on the subject are available free online. Couldn’t be more available, and should be more widely read.
They collected all the AR-15’s? Was it before or after their school shooting? /s
Islam is, times of spectacular defeats aside, nothing but a sequence of massacres and terrorism interrupted by periods spent rearming and rearing the next army to march.
Is unfortunate.
Thanks, I will look for them.
“national game of Turkey”
It was and still is.
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