On April 24, he marked the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the duration that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottman Empire.
Tensions always increase between the Armenians and the Turkish Government modern at this time of year, and many Armenians are now kissing the day to reflect on the ethnic cleaning of Azerbaijan at the end of 2023.
Modern historians look at the events of 1915-1916 as the first of several genocidal events in the twentieth century, while Turkey disputes the accusation that their Ottoman predecessors tried to systematically eliminate the Armenian people, or the treatment of Jewiman Treat Treat Treat Treat Treat Treat Treat Treatd Treatd Tutsis.
On April 24, 1915, it was the day when Ottoman nationalists known as “Turkish young people” ordered the trial of some intellectuals and Armenian political leaders in Constantinople, the city now known as Istanbul. The young Turk justified these judgments by stating that the Armenians were auctionery while fighting as part of the Ottoman Army in World War I.
The ongoing accusations led the Ottomans to begin to begin to relocate to the Armenians of the first line of combat against Russia, which turned out to be where most of the Armenians lived. Many died in the march to concentration camps and many more were killed in the fields.
There were numerous international witnesses about these atrocities, including foreign reporters and military officers. Modern Turkish politicians are generally willing to admit that Armenian civilians were killed and mistreated in large quantities, but insist that there is no documented evidence that the Ottoman government deliberately tried to exterminate the Armenians.
The Armenians Say The Ottomans wanted to eliminate them because they were inconvenient Christian people who brought themselves in the path of the vision of the young Turk for a powerful Turkish empire that would extend from the Caucasus to China.
The Oigures Muslim oppressed from Eastern Turkistan, the region annexed by communist and renamed China as “Xinjiang province”, are a Turkish people Who was on the edge of the empire that the Ottomans wanted to build. The Uigures have an leg under a campaign of concentration, indoctrination and relocation fields for China, that the United States government declared Be genocidal of the last days of the first Trump administration.
Many Armenians today accuse Azerbaijan of ethnic cleaning that eliminates a town by relocating in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2023.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a strip of territory that fell within the borders of Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but most of its inhabitants were ethnic Armenians, which they had lived in the area. callous The “Republic of Artsakh” for centuries, from the height of the kingdom of the great Armenian.
The disputed region is mountainous and difficult to access, which made it strategically vital to turn the age of the imperial conquest. Several invading powers He had the idea To control the region killing the Armenians, expelling them or converting them to Islam, but a small number of them endured until 2023, some Azerbaijan woke them up with a Blockade and then Conquered Nagorno-Karabakh by force. In a few months, the Republic of Artsakh was formally dissolved and most Armenian Christians had expelled the bone of their homes.
Writing in him Christian publication Last Sunday, religious freedom lawyer David Curry tax The United States government holds Azerbaijan for abusing Armenians and other Christians, including ethnic and religious cleaning of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Commission of the Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) of the USA appointed Azerbaijan as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for oppression in May 2024, but that designation was reduced to the “special clock trick” state list “less urgent. Curry argued that degradation was unjustified:
The authoritarian regime of Azerbaijan under President Ilham Aliyev has cultivated an environment where religious freedom is systematically suppressed. Despite the statements of the Azerbaijan lobbyists that the nation is an example of tolerance, international guards such as Freedom House place it constantly among the worst offenders of political rights and civil freedoms. The destruction of the Armenian Christian milestones and the forced displacement of the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh further highlight the contempt of the regime for religious diversity.
The designation of CPC by USCIRF could lead to diplomatic actions such as sanctions or other measures for pressure to Azerbaiyan to improve its human rights history. However, significant change can remain elusive without a sustained international defense.
Azerbaiyan has joined Turkey to minimize the 1915 genocide, working Editorials That argues that the Ottomans were right to convert their weapons against the Armenian saboteators who last the First World War, accusing the Armenians of perpetrating their own massacres and claiming the number of dead for the genocide has been greatly.
IMAD TATARYAN, general secretary of the Armenian Union Party, saying On Thursday, that the Armenians who live throughout the world should improve to organize to oppose ethnic cleaning and genocide, against them and others.
Tataryan saw a disturbing symmetry between Ethnic and religious oppression In Syria today and the Armenian genocide, for example, since many of the Armenians killed in 1915-16 were taken to the Syrian desert to die.
“Any person who loses his leadership and lacks civil and military institutions to defend it becomes vulnerable to genocide. Therefore, it is necessary to build institutions that represent all religions, ethnic and section.”
Some in the Armenian diaspora have criticized the Armenian government for moving from their efforts to ensure that the other nations of the world formally recognize the 1915 genocide, in part because the government believes that it is doing.
In March, Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan told Turkish journalists that the international recognition of Armenian genocide “is not among Ourign’s political priorities today.” He hinted that insisting on the recognition of the event was an obstacle to sign a treaty with Azerbaijan or normalize relations with Türkiye.
“I want to be very clear that in Armenia and among the Armenians, [the Genocide] It is an indisputable truth. In other words, it is simply impossible to deny or reject it in our reality, because it is an undeniable truth for all of us, “he added.
Official memory events of Genocide in the Armenian capital of Ereván were not scheduled on Thursday. Some mourners who made the long climb to the genocide memorial in the hills about Ereván thought that Pashinyan had the situation upside down and there were no areas to trust anyway with Türkiye or Azerbaikan until Acnowattge the genocide.
“What is our government thinking? How do we trust Turkey, who openly supported the duration of Azerbaijan in the Karabakh war and still refuses to recognize genocide?” Aram Hayrapetyan, 72, who promised to continue climbing the hill every year in honor of his late wife, “as long as he has strength on his legs.”