Armenia Genocide Explained: Turkey, Erdogan, Biden Statement, Reparations & the Ottoman Empire
Some quick background on Armenia first: it's a country of around 3 million in the mountainous Caucasus region between Asia and Europe. It's also one of the earliest Christian civilisations and over the years.. it's found itself under the control of different empires & rulers. During World War 1 Armenia was on the border of the Ottoman Empire & the Russian Empire who were on opposite sides of the war. As the war went on the Muslim-majority Ottoman Empire were worried that the Christian-majority Armenians living in their empire were secretly working for the also Christian-majority Russian Empire. While there were some cases of Armenians rebelling against the Ottomans the historical evidence overwhelmingly points to this resistance being very limited and not widely organised and certainly not directed by Moscow.
But in 1915, the military decided to act. Just a few years later the Ottoman Empire fell and what we now know as Turkey was created. Fast forward to today and most countries including Turkey agree that hundreds of thousands of Armenian civilians were killed. But the question of whether it was genocide... is at the center of the controversy today. Genocide is actually a pretty new word. It was coined in the 40s to describe the holocaust in World War 2. Eventually the UN introduced the Genocide Convention in the 50s which defined the act as "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such". So, basically, the difference between killing a lot of people and genocide is that there needs to be a plan or intention to target and wipe out a certain group.
Armenians say in the few years after 1915 they were purposely targeted for extermination through things like starvation concentration camps and being forced out of the area and that all up around 1.5 million people died.
Turkey says there wasn't a deliberate plan to wipe out the Armenians during World War 1 and that many of the deaths were caused by the war or by Russian soldiers and that the number of deaths is closer to 300,000.
Turkish officials are confident the facts support their side of the story but historians and genocide experts aren't as convinced. But what would happen if everyone in the world today just suddently agreed it was a genocide? Well it's not really clear everyone in charge back then is obviously long dead by now so you can't really punish them. Although some of the leaders actually were charged and executed at the Istanbul trials in 1919 even though most had already fled. What Turkey is worried about is what people may start demanding. Many Armenians aren't just looking for recognition they're calling for justice and reparations.
So what does the rest of the world actually think right now. At the moment more than 30 countries have officially recognised what happened as genocide. Most others have been careful not to take a side. When it comes to international politics saying the wrong thing can have a huge impact on everything from trade to national security. Take Australia for example. Scott Morrison used the term back in 2011, but now that he's the PM he's changed his tune and uses words like enormous loss instead of genocide. All you need to do is look at Turkey's reaction to President Biden's statement... to understand why so many countries are cautious. Turkey's President Erdogan has asked Biden to reverse what he said and says he's risking damaging their important relationship as military allies and NATO members.
There's no doubt that the US siding with Armenia is a big deal. They're the biggest nation so far to use the term genocide and that alone could encourage other countries that may have been worried about Turkey's reaction to speak up. For now we'll just have to wait and see what kind of an impact this little piece of paper will have on the future of Turkey and Armenia.
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Good video
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We don’t want money we just want our ancient land back (Western Armenia) modern day Eastern Turkey, so we can pray in our churches and live freely in the land of our ancestors. All we want is peace ☮️. Turkey needs to recognize the Armenian Genocide and build new bridges with the descendants of the Armenian genocide. I am a grandchild of a Armenian Genocide survivor ☦️
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As always the winners of wars write down what happened in history accusing people of events that might not happen that way
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Is politics game
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Turkey and the art of scapegoating
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The only thing I agree with sleepy Joe!
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QARDAŞIM TÜRKİYƏ 🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿❤️❤️🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
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I like your Presentation. I m from Turkey and if we think without political views there's no any reason to hates the Armenian people so people shouldn't think Like that we hates all Armenians
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The Byzantines and Soviets did even worse to the Armenians get reparations from them. The Ottomans expelled them during war due to them being untrustworthy traitors. Don't down play it by saying it was a small rebellion. Get real
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Hi guya ⬛🟥As an Azerbaijani leftist anarchist, I condemn the Armenian genocide and, loving the Armenian people, I can say with complete sincerity that we will live in peace again despite the fascists and imperialists. The Ottoman fascist imperialism has made the peoples enemies and oppressed the Armenians.
Azeri 🫂 Armenian 🚩✌🏻🕊️🕊️
… funny the🇺🇸🇺🇸talks about Genocide !🙂🤣😂😁😆
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Denials are always the wrong doers and also the cowards.
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Seriously, I'm tired of this he said she said situation. nobody talks or wanting to talk about the facts except Turks. I find that a bit unusual considering that they would completely avoid delving into it, if they had done what's claimed.
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No amount of money can bring back those 300,000 men who could have reproduced to make a bigger and stronger country. This is bigger than money!
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Turkey official is lying with wide eye blinking infront of us😢
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OF COURSE IT WAS A GENOCIDE!
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They want you to feel sad for Palestine, but they won't feel same for Armenians.
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This is to mention that temporary Armenian displacement from the eastern part of Turkiye was carried out during the first phase of the First world war, under the protection of Turkish security guards. About 250,000 died due to sickness and retaliation by Kurds while they were crossing through the Kurdish region. Just before the relocation of Armenians, armed Armenians (armed and trained by Czarist Russia and Britain and France) had killed at least 250,000 Kurds there. These armed Armenians were continuously cutting supply lines of Turkish army fighting with Russians. Armenians had also shown several incidents of rebellions and violence even in Istanbul. It was under this condition, Young Turkish led government, not led by the Ottoman Sultan/Caliph, took the decision to relocate Armenians from eastern and central parts of Turkiye. Armenians left rest of Turkiye on their own and migrated to the West. Total population of Armenians under the Young Turk government was around 1.2 million.
Actual loss of Armenian lives was 250,000 and not 1.5 million. Similar number of Kurds had been killed by Armenians many of them were found in a number of mass graves.
Deaths of both Armenians and Kurds are condemnable. Turkish government tried and punished several Turkish guards for their negligence and violence in some places but no trial was made against Armenians.
Radicals among Armenians also killed dozens of Turkish Diplomatic staff in Western Europe. European countries are engaged in recognising Armenian genocide with false numbers but the same are silent on Kurdish genocide by Armenians and Algerian genocide by France in 1950s.
Therefore, false narrative must be checked which are being spread through digital means.
Professor Dr Arshi Khan, Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, India
beginning from 1914 russian army invaded Turkey with the help of betraying armenains and killed 2,5 million muslim ottomans and they were willing to kill more..Armenian people were relocated and with difficulty , russian army was beaten twice. in east of the Turkey , russian army and armenian milita burnt each of every city.. later with a lot of fabricated lies this fake history was raised. Armenians betrayed revolted and left by russia at that time..every armenian person has the right to know the truth..
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No wonder turkey support israel , they are the same 😮
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Thanks for presenting this. I searched several short videos on the Armenian Genocide which I can share with my students on April 24th. I like how you identified (modern) Armenia, defined "genocide", detailed what occurred, and why this is an important and controversial topic. Well done. Thanks again, Tom
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