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Hamidian (Armenian) Massacres (remembered on 100th Anniversary of death of Sultan Abdul Hamid)
Armenian National Institute ^ | none stated | ANI

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.

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KEYWORDS: abdulhamid; armenian; massacre; turkey
Abdul Hamid II was the Sultan of the Ottoman empire who ordered the first of the great massacres that lead up to the Armenian Genocide after WWI. He died on February 10, 1918. 100 years ago this month. 100-300,000 Armenians are estimated to have died in the Massacre.

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.

1 posted on 02/24/2018 12:00:32 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

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.


2 posted on 02/24/2018 12:04:56 PM PST by marron
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To: marron

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.


3 posted on 02/24/2018 12:06:55 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: marron

Would it not have been nice if the Armenians all had AR-15’s during that time?


4 posted on 02/24/2018 12:44:25 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Texas Fossil

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.


5 posted on 02/24/2018 12:45:49 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: 353FMG
Would it not have been nice if the Armenians all had AR-15’s during that time?

Prior to the Genocide, they took the precaution to conscript the Armenian men and confiscate the firearms.

6 posted on 02/24/2018 12:48:01 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: Buttons12

Aah, Islam, the ROP.


7 posted on 02/24/2018 12:48:39 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Texas Fossil

Ambassador Morgenthau’s contemporaneous writings on the subject are available free online. Couldn’t be more available, and should be more widely read.


8 posted on 02/24/2018 12:51:23 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: Texas Fossil
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM


9 posted on 02/24/2018 12:55:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Buttons12

They collected all the AR-15’s? Was it before or after their school shooting? /s


10 posted on 02/24/2018 1:05:17 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Texas Fossil

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.


11 posted on 02/24/2018 2:37:23 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Is unfortunate.


12 posted on 02/24/2018 3:07:38 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Buttons12

Thanks, I will look for them.


13 posted on 02/24/2018 3:14:57 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Buttons12

“national game of Turkey”

It was and still is.


14 posted on 02/24/2018 3:15:44 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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